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Multicenter Study
. 2002 Nov;8(11):1260-3.
doi: 10.3201/eid0811.020298.

A prospective, multicenter study of laboratory cross-contamination of Mycobacterium tuberculosis cultures

Robert M Jasmer  1 , Marguerite Roemer, John Hamilton, John Bunter, Christopher R Braden, Thomas M Shinnick, Edward P Desmond
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Multicenter Study

A prospective, multicenter study of laboratory cross-contamination of Mycobacterium tuberculosis cultures

Robert M Jasmer et al. 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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