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Pseudo-outbreak of hepatitis B virus infection associated with contamination of a semiautomatic cap remover.

Diederen BM, Verhulst C, van't Veen A, van Keulen PH, Kluytmans JA

Laboratory of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, St Elisabeth Hospital, Tilburg, The Netherlands. b.diederen@elisabeth.nl

A pseudo-outbreak of hepatitis B virus caused by cross-contamination from a semiautomatic cap remover for blood collection tubes is reported. The source of the outbreak was elucidated by using basic epidemiological methods. Laboratories should always be critical about their results in order to identify contamination problems.

Published 2 November 2006 in Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol, 27(11): 1258-60.
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