Louie L, Louie M, Simor A E
Department of Microbiology, Sunnybrook Health Science Centre, and University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
J Clin Microbiol. 1997 Jun;35(6):1582-4. doi: 10.1128/jcm.35.6.1582-1584.1997.
Molecular strain typing by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis and by randomly amplified polymorphic DNA analysis was used to investigate a cluster of four Nocardia asteroides isolates associated with the BACTEC 460 TB system. An instrument motor drive misalignment resulted in inadequate needle sterilization and cross-contamination of BACTEC vials. This pseudo-outbreak illustrates the importance of proper BACTEC 460 needle sterilization and maintenance and confirms the usefulness of molecular typing methods for epidemiologic investigations.
采用脉冲场凝胶电泳和随机扩增多态性DNA分析进行分子菌株分型,以研究与BACTEC 460结核系统相关的4株星形诺卡菌分离株。仪器电机驱动未对准导致BACTEC小瓶针头消毒不充分和交叉污染。这次假性暴发说明了正确进行BACTEC 460针头消毒和维护的重要性,并证实了分子分型方法在流行病学调查中的实用性。