Mycobacterium avium complex endocarditis: Spurious diagnosis resulting from laboratory cross contamination

Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 147-150

  Hedderwick, Sara A ^a,c   Bonilla, Hector F ^a   Barg, Neil L ^a   Arbeit, Robert D ^b   Kauffman, Carol A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; HUMAN; MALE; MYCOBACTERIOSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; ENDOCARDITIS, BACTERIAL; EQUIPMENT CONTAMINATION; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM COMPLEX; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM-INTRACELLULARE INFECTION; SPECIMEN HANDLING;

EID: 0030982744     PISSN: 07328893     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0732-8893(97)00030-8     Document Type: Article

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