https://www.selleckchem.com/pr....oducts/l-arginine-l-
BACKGROUND Heater-cooler units (HCUs) have been implicated in the recent global outbreak of invasive Mycobacterium chimaera infection among patients following cardiothoracic surgery. Because infected patients tend to remain asymptomatic for extended periods, detection of M. chimaera from HCUs in real time is essential to halting the ongoing M. chimaera HCU-associated outbreak. Sample collection protocols to evaluate the presence of M. chimaera offer conflicting recommendations regarding the addition of sodium thiosulfate