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Caroline Loïez, Eve Willery, J.-Louis Legrand, Véronique Vincent, Maria Cristina Gutierrez, René J. Courcol, Philip Supply, Against All Odds: Molecular Confirmation of an Implausible Case of Bone Tuberculosis, Clinical Infectious Diseases, Volume 42, Issue 11, 1 June 2006, Pages e86–e88, https://doi.org/10.1086/503571
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Abstract
We report the use of typing based on a variable number of tandem repeats of genetic elements called “mycobacterial interspersed repetitive units” to clarify a puzzling situation involving a patient with an exceptional case of spondylodiskitis that initially led to the suspicion of a possible event of laboratory cross-contamination with Mycobacterium tuberculosis.
© 2006 by the Infectious Diseases Society of America
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