Investigation of suspected laboratory cross-contamination: Interpretation of single smear-negative, positive cultures for Mycobacterium tuberculosis

Clinical Microbiology and Infection

Volumn 12, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 1042-1045

  Cook, Victoria J ^a,b   Stark, G ^a   Roscoe, D L ^c   Kwong, A ^c   Elwood, R K ^a,b  

^a BRITISH COLUMBIA CENTRE FOR DISEASE CONTROL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c VANCOUVER GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cross contamination; DNA fingerprints; False positive cultures; Mycobacterium tuberculosis; Restriction fragment length polymorphism analysis; Tuberculosis

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; ISONIAZID; TUBERCULOSTATIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DNA FINGERPRINTING; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; FEMALE; HUMAN; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; MALE; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MOLECULAR TYPING; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TUBERCULOSIS; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT; VARIABLE NUMBER OF TANDEM REPEAT;

MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 33748308707     PISSN: 1198743X     EISSN: 14690691     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-0691.2006.01517.x     Document Type: Article

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