Perkins and colleagues [1] performed whole-genome sequencing on Mycobacterium chimaera isolates from 11 patients exposed to heater/cooler devices (HCDs) and from five LivaNova (formerly Sorin/Stöckert ...

Melbourne researchers have used cutting-edge genomics technology to show a strain of a bacteria can be transmitted to patients from machines commonly used to regulate body temperature during cardiac ...

Of 89 heater-cooler devices tested by researchers between July 2015 and December 2016, 33 tested positive for Mycobacterium chimaera, a bacterium tied to fatal infections in open-heart surgery ...

The CDC issued a warning Thursday that one type of heater-cooler device — used in about 60 percent of bypass procedures in the U.S. each year — could be spreading a serious bacterial infection and ...

The Medical University of South Carolina says there is potential for open-heart surgery patients to have contracted an infection called Mycobacterium chimaera. Recent reports show that a device used ...