TY - JOUR
T1 - Specimen contamination in mycobacteriology laboratory detected by pseudo-outbreak of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis
T2 - Analysis by routine epidemiology and confirmation by molecular technique
AU - Wurtz, Rebecca
AU - Demarais, Patricia
AU - Trainor, William
AU - Mcauley, James
AU - Kocka, Frank
AU - Mosher, Laura
AU - Dietrich, Steven
PY - 1996
Y1 - 1996
N2 - A cluster of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis sputum isolates led to the detection of specimen contamination in a hospital mycobacteriology laboratory. Thirteen specimens were smear negative but culture positive from one specimen only; 12 appeared to be contaminated. Each of these specimens was processed in the same batch as one or more smear- and culture-positive isolates. Molecular analysis confirmed the traditional epidemiologic, laboratory, and clinical methods of evaluating presumed mycobacterial contamination.
AB - A cluster of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis sputum isolates led to the detection of specimen contamination in a hospital mycobacteriology laboratory. Thirteen specimens were smear negative but culture positive from one specimen only; 12 appeared to be contaminated. Each of these specimens was processed in the same batch as one or more smear- and culture-positive isolates. Molecular analysis confirmed the traditional epidemiologic, laboratory, and clinical methods of evaluating presumed mycobacterial contamination.
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U2 - 10.1128/jcm.34.4.1017-1019.1996
DO - 10.1128/jcm.34.4.1017-1019.1996
M3 - Article
C2 - 8815074
AN - SCOPUS:0029985480
SN - 0095-1137
VL - 34
SP - 1017
EP - 1019
JO - Journal of clinical microbiology
JF - Journal of clinical microbiology
IS - 4
ER -
