A pseudo-epidemic involving bone allografts.

Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol

Division of Infectious Diseases, Rhode Island Hospital, Providence 02903.

Published: December 1994

Preimplantation cultures of four sterile bone allograft specimens grew Comomonas acidovorans and Pseudomonas species. An epidemiological investigation, including molecular subtyping methods, revealed that the allograft specimens were contaminated in a microbiology laboratory sonicator water bath.

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