Pseudo-outbreak of Mycobacterium abscessus infection caused by laboratory contamination

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 57-62

  Blossom, David B ^a,b   Alelis, K A ^c   Chang, D C ^b   Flores, A H ^b   Gill, J ^c   Beall, D ^d   Peterson, A M ^a   Jensen, B ^a   Noble Wang, J ^a   Williams, M ^a   Yakrus, M A ^b   Arduino, M J ^a   Srinivasan, A ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR EMERGING AND ZOONOTIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^b CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^c Pinellas County Health Department   (United States)

^d FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CONTAMINATION; DISINFECTION; ENVIRONMENTAL SAMPLE; EPIDEMIC; HUMAN; HYGIENE; INCUBATION TIME; INCUBATOR; LABORATORY CONTAMINATION; LABORATORY HYGIENE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR TYPING; MYCOBACTERIUM ABSCESSUS; PSEUDO OUTBREAK; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; SAMPLING; SPECIMEN INCUBATOR;

BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; CROSS INFECTION; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; EQUIPMENT CONTAMINATION; HUMANS; INFECTION CONTROL; LABORATORIES, HOSPITAL; MYCOBACTERIA, ATYPICAL; MYCOBACTERIUM INFECTIONS, ATYPICAL;

EID: 39449127433     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/524328     Document Type: Article

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