Contamination of commercial PCR master mix with DNA from Coxiella burnetii.

J Clin Microbiol

Department of Medical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Canisius Wilhelmina Hospital, and Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Center, Weg door Jonkerbos 100, 6532 SZ Nijmegen, Netherlands.

Published: December 2010

Contamination of an in-house diagnostic real-time PCR for Q fever was traced back to a commercially obtained PCR Master Mix. It was established that this Master Mix contained DNA from Coxiella burnetii, probably as a result of the use of compounds of animal origin such as bovine serum albumin.

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