caa a22 4500 388033142 CHVBK 20180307124957.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e199805 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1086/647827 doi S0195941700087646 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1086/647827 Pseudo-outbreak of Tuberculosis in an Acute-Care General Hospital: Epidemiology and Clinical Implications [Elektronische Daten] A 10-fold increase in patients with Mycobacterium tuberculosis-positive specimens in one hospital laboratory prompted an investigation. Clinical and epidemiological data, along with M tuberculosis DNA fingerprinting results, indicated that laboratory contamination led to nine falsepositive M tuberculosis cultures. Pseudo-infection should be considered in patients with unusual tuberculosis presentations, negative acid-fast bacilli smears, and only one positive culture with a low colony count Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 1998 Cronin Wendy Rodriguez Evelyn Valway Sarah Bur Sarah Hooper Nancy Smithwick Ronald Butler W. Ray Dwyer Diane Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology Cambridge University Press 19/5(1998-05), 345-347 0899-823X 19:5<345 1998 19 ICE https://doi.org/10.1086/647827 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 brief-communication jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1086/647827 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Cronin Wendy NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Rodriguez Evelyn NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Valway Sarah NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Bur Sarah NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Hooper Nancy NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Smithwick Ronald NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Butler W. Ray NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Dwyer Diane NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology Cambridge University Press 19/5(1998-05), 345-347 0899-823X 19:5<345 1998 19 ICE CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge