Infections from Cardiac Implants

Geoscientists Find Key to Why Some Patients Get Infections from Cardiac Implants

10/24/2011 03:47 PM EDT

New research suggests that some patients develop a potentially deadly blood infection from their implanted cardiac devices because bacterial cells in their bodies have gene mutations that allow them to stick to the devices.
Geoscientists were the major contributors to the finding.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences published the study results online this week.
"Geobiologists, key to these results, use atomic force microscopy to study the forces ...

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