Long‐Term Laboratory Contamination byMycobacterium abscessusResulting in Two Pseudo‐Outbreaks: Recognition with Use of Random Amplified Polymorphic DNA (RAPD) Polymerase Chain Reaction

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Beginning in 1993, an increase in clinical isolates of Mycobacterium abscessus was observed in a single hospital microbiology laboratory. This involved a cluster of four patients in June 1993 and five patients and a quality-control culture of distilled water in May 1994. Twenty-three M. abscessus isolates recovered between 1991 and 1996 were compared by random amplified polymorphic DNA polymerase chain reaction...

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