Forty years of disinfectant failure: outbreak of postinjection Mycobacterium abscessus infection caused by contamination of benzalkonium chloride.

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Published in Clin Infect Dis on March 31, 2003

Authors

Tejpratap S P Tiwari1, Beverly Ray, Kenneth C Jost, Minaxi K Rathod, Yansheng Zhang, Barbara A Brown-Elliott, Kate Hendricks, Richard J Wallace

Author Affiliations

1: Epidemic Intelligence Service, Epidemiology Program Office, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia 30333, USA. tit2@cdc.gov

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