Related Experiment Videos
A pseudo-epidemic involving bone allografts
L A Mermel1, S L Josephson, C Giorgio
1Division of Infectious Diseases, Rhode Island Hospital, Providence 02903.
Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology
|December 1, 1994
Abstract:
Preimplantation 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.