Impact of Laboratory Cross-Contamination on Molecular Epidemiology Studies of Tuberculosis
- 1 August 2006
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Society for Microbiology in Journal of Clinical Microbiology
- Vol. 44 (8) , 2967-2969
- https://doi.org/10.1128/jcm.00754-06
Abstract
Laboratory cross-contamination by Mycobacterium tuberculosis is known to be responsible for the misdiagnosis of tuberculosis, but its impact on other contexts has not been analyzed. We present the findings of a molecular epidemiology analysis in which the recent transmission events identified by a genotyping reference center were overestimated as a result of unnoticed laboratory cross-contamination in the original diagnostic laboratories.Keywords
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