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Variable-number tandem repeat typing of Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates with low copy numbers of IS6110 by using mycobacterial interspersed repetitive units.

• Lauren Steinlein Cowan, Laura B. Mosher, Lois A. Diem, Jeffrey P. Massey, J. T. Crawford
• Journal of clinical microbiology
• 2002

A study set of 180 Mycobacterium tuberculosis and Mycobacterium bovis isolates having low copy numbers of IS6110 were genotyped using the recently introduced method based on the variable-number… (More)

Human Mycobacterium bovis Infection and Bovine Tuberculosis Outbreak, Michigan, 1994–2007

• Melinda J. Wilkins, Joshua Meyerson, +7 authors Matthew L. Boulton
• Emerging infectious diseases
• 2008

Mycobacterium bovis is endemic in Michigan's white-tailed deer and has been circulating since 1994. The strain circulating in deer has remained genotypically consistent and was recently detected in 2… (More)

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

• Rebecca M Wurtz, Patricia M Demarais, +4 authors Shelby L. Dietrich
• Journal of clinical microbiology
• 1996

A cluster of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis sputum isolates led to the detection of specimen contamination in a hospital mycobacteriology laboratory. Thirteen specimens were smear negative but… (More)

Cross-contamination of specimens with Mycobacterium tuberculosis: clinical significance, causes, and prevention.

• Mallar Bhattacharya, Sascha Dietrich, +4 authors John R. Warren
• American journal of clinical pathology
• 1998

At the Veterans Affairs Lakeside Medical Center, two episodes of specimen cross-contamination with Mycobacterium tuberculosis were detected during a 54-month period by molecular strain typing using… (More)

Persistent tuberculosis or specimen contamination?

• K Trakas, Valentina Stosor, Sascha Dietrich, Laura B. Mosher, John R. Warren
• Archives of pathology & laboratory medicine
• 2000

Cross-contamination during sequential processing of sputum specimens from different patients causes false-positive growth of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in culture. We describe an unusual case of… (More)

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