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Indian Journal of Medical Microbiology
Medknow Publications on behalf of Indian Association of Medical Microbiology
ISSN: 0255-0857 EISSN: 0255-0857
Vol. 25, No. 1, 2007, pp. 4-6
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Bioline Code: mb07003
Full paper language: English
Document type: Research Article
Document available free of charge
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Indian Journal of Medical Microbiology, Vol. 25, No. 1, 2007, pp. 4-6
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Special Article - Dedicated decontamination: A necessity to prevent cross contamination in high throughput mycobacteriology laboratories
Rodrigues, C; Almeida, D; Shenai, S; Goyal, N & Mehta, A
Abstract
Unrecognized cross-contamination has been known to occur in laboratories frequently, especially with sensitive recovery system like BACTEC 460 TB. In March 2001, we investigated a pseudo-outbreak of Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates in three smear negative clinical specimens and would like to present our experience in this communication.
Methods : All suspected cases were confirmed by checking the drug susceptibility and DNA fingerprints using spoligotyping as well as restriction fragment length polymorphism.
Results: On investigation, the most likely cause was found to be the use of common decontamination reagents and phosphate buffer.
Conclusions: To avoid erroneous diagnosis, we have devised a dedicated decontamination procedure, which includes separate aliquoting of phosphate buffer and decontamination reagents per patient. Timely molecular analysis and appropriate changes to specimen processing have been identified as useful measures for limiting laboratory cross contamination.
Keywords
Cross contamination, dedicated decontamination, pseudo-outbreak
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