SPECIMEN CONTAMINATION IN MYCOBACTERIOLOGY LABORATORY DETECTED BY PSEUDO-OUTBREAK OF MULTIDRUG-RESISTANT TUBERCULOSIS - ANALYSIS BY ROUTINEEPIDEMIOLOGY AND CONFIRMATION BY MOLECULAR TECHNIQUE

Authors
WURTZ R DEMARAIS P TRAINOR W MCAULEY J KOCKA F MOSHER L DIETRICH S
Citation
R. Wurtz et al., SPECIMEN CONTAMINATION IN MYCOBACTERIOLOGY LABORATORY DETECTED BY PSEUDO-OUTBREAK OF MULTIDRUG-RESISTANT TUBERCULOSIS - ANALYSIS BY ROUTINEEPIDEMIOLOGY AND CONFIRMATION BY MOLECULAR TECHNIQUE, Journal of clinical microbiology, 34(4), 1996, pp. 1017-1019
Citations number
15
Categorie Soggetti
Microbiology
Journal title
Journal of clinical microbiology → ACNP
ISSN journal
00951137
Volume
34
Issue
4
Year of publication
1996
Pages
1017 - 1019
Database
ISI
SICI code
0095-1137(1996)34:4<1017:SCIMLD>2.0.ZU;2-6
Abstract
A cluster of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis sputum isolates led to t he detection of specimen contamination in a hospital mycobacteriology laboratory. Thirteen specimens were smear negative but culture positiv e from one specimen only; 12 appeared to be contaminated. Each of thes e specimens was processed in the same batch as one or more smear- and culture-positive isolates. Molecular analysis confirmed the traditiona l epidemiologic, laboratory, and clinical methods of evaluating presum ed mycobacterial contamination.