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A prospective, multicenter study of laboratory cross-contamination of Mycobacterium tuberculosis cultures
Robert M Jasmer1, Marguerite Roemer, John Hamilton
1San francisco General Hospital Medical Center and University of California, San Francisco, California 94110, USA. rjasmer@itsa.ucsf.edu
Emerging Infectious Diseases
|November 28, 2002
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.

