A PSEUDO-EPIDEMIC INVOLVING BONE ALLOGRAFTS

Authors
MERMEL LA JOSEPHSON SL GIORGIO C
Citation
La. Mermel et al., A PSEUDO-EPIDEMIC INVOLVING BONE ALLOGRAFTS, Infection control and hospital epidemiology, 15(12), 1994, pp. 757-758
Citations number
7
Categorie Soggetti
Infectious Diseases
Journal title
Infection control and hospital epidemiology → ACNP
ISSN journal
0899823X
Volume
15
Issue
12
Year of publication
1994
Pages
757 - 758
Database
ISI
SICI code
0899-823X(1994)15:12<757:APIBA>2.0.ZU;2-5
Abstract
Preimplantation cultures of four sterile bone allograft specimens grew Comomonas acidovorans and Pseudomonas species. An epidemiological inv estigation, including molecular subtyping methods, revealed that the a llograft specimens were contaminated in a microbiology laboratory soni cator water bath.