Multicenter Study
doi: 10.3201/eid0811.020298.
A prospective, multicenter study of laboratory cross-contamination of Mycobacterium tuberculosis cultures
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Multicenter Study
A prospective, multicenter study of laboratory cross-contamination of Mycobacterium tuberculosis cultures
Emerg Infect Dis.
2002 Nov.
Abstract
A prospective study of false-positive cultures of Mycobacterium tuberculosis that resulted from laboratory cross-contamination was conducted at three laboratories in California. Laboratory cross-contamination accounted for 2% of the positive cultures. Cross-contamination should be a concern when an isolate matches the genotype of another sample processed during the same period.
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