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Adenovirus pseudo-outbreak associated with bronchoscopy
Walter C Hellinger1, Heather C Parth2, Brenda T Smith2
1Division of Infectious Diseases, Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, Florida.
Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology
|August 29, 2019
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Introduction and regular application of multiplex polymerase chain reaction analysis of bronchoalveolar specimens for community-acquired respiratory viruses in January 2017 led to the identification of adenovirus in multiple patients in a surgical intensive unit in July 2017, which was attributed to a pseudo-outbreak.
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