Mycobacterium tuberculosis specimen contamination revisited: The role of laboratory environmental control in a pseudo-outbreak

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 101-105

  Segal Maurer, Sorana ^a,b   Kreiswirth, Barry N ^c   Burns, Janice M ^a   Lavie, Sol ^a   Lim, Mimi ^a   Urban, Carl ^a,b   Rahal Jr , James J ^a,b  

^a NEW YORK PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^c PUBLIC HEALTH RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR CONDITIONING; ARTICLE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA FINGERPRINTING; EPIDEMIC; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HOSPITAL LABORATORY; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPUTUM; STANDARD; UNITED STATES;

BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DNA FINGERPRINTING; HUMANS; INFECTION CONTROL; LABORATORIES, HOSPITAL; NEW YORK CITY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPECIMEN HANDLING; SPUTUM; TUBERCULOSIS, PULMONARY; VENTILATION;

EID: 0031989928     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/30141997     Document Type: Article

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