by Cathryn Delude
NOTEBOOK	Swimming with the mycobacteria The Scientist 2005, 19(11):12 Published   6 June 2005

The patients were working out in a hospital's warm therapeutic pool in Boulder, Colorado, when Mark Hernandez walked in and dipped sterile bottles in the water. He also set up a liquid impinger, a device that suctions air from above the pool and entrains the particulates, including microorganisms, in sterile buffered water. The swimmers, seemingly unperturbed, continued their physical therapy.

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