Pseudoepidemic of Nocardia asteroides associated with a mycobacterial culture system

J. E. Patterson; K. Chapin-Robertson; S. Waycott; P. Farrel; A. McGeer; M. M. McNeil; S. C. Edberg

doi:10.1128/jcm.30.5.1357-1360.1992

Pseudoepidemic of Nocardia asteroides associated with a mycobacterial culture system

J. E. Patterson, K. Chapin-Robertson, S. Waycott, P. Farrel, A. McGeer, M. M. McNeil, S. C. Edberg

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Abstract

Nocardia isolations increased from 0.7 to 11.7/1,000 acid-fast bacillus and mycological cultures (P < 0.000001). Only three isolations from one patient represented infection. Pseudoepidemic strain identity was confirmed by DNA fingerprinting; the isolate causing infection was distinct. The end of the pseudoepidemic was associated with changing the needle sterilizer and prolonging needle sterilization time on the BACTEC 460 machine. To our knowledge, this is the first reported Nocardia asteroides pseudoepidemic.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	1357-1360
Number of pages	4
Journal	Journal of clinical microbiology
Volume	30
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1128/jcm.30.5.1357-1360.1992
State	Published - 1992
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