| mycobacterium chimaera colonisation of heater-cooler units (hcu) in western australia, 2015: investigation of possible iatrogenic infection using whole genome sequencing. | following the reported link between heater-cooler unit (hcu) colonisation with mycobacterium chimaera and endocarditis, mycobacterial sampling of all hcus in use in western australia was initiated from august 2015, revealing m. chimaera colonisation in 10 of 15 hcus. after m. chimaera was isolated from a pleural biopsy from a cardiothoracic patient who may have been exposed to a colonised hcu, a whole genome sequencing investigation was performed involving 65 specimens from 15 hcus across five h ... | 2016 | 27918263 |