Specimen contamination in mycobacteriology laboratory detected by pseudo-outbreak of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis: analysis by routine epidemiology and confirmation by molecular technique.

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Published in J Clin Microbiol on April 01, 1996

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R Wurtz, P Demarais, W Trainor, J McAuley, F Kocka, L Mosher, S Dietrich

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