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A Pseudo-Epidemic Involving Bone Allografts

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Leonard A. Mermel ,
Stephen L. Josephson  and
Christina Giorgio
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Abstract

Pre-implantation cultures of four sterile bone allograft specimens grew Comomonas acidovorans and Pseudomonas species. An epidemiological investigation, including molecular subtyping methods, revealed that the allograft specimens were contaminated in a microbiology laboratory sonicator water bath.

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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 15 , Issue 12 , December 1994 , pp. 757 - 758
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 1994

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