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lifeskim:mentions |
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pubmed:issue |
6
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pubmed:dateCreated |
2002-5-31
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pubmed:abstractText |
This paper presents the finding of the possible cause of the high false-positive rate in acid-fast staining in histological examinations. Using acid-fast staining, culture, and PCR, acid-fast bacilli were detected in 83.7% of 49 hospital tap water samples and nontuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) were detected in 20.4% of the same 49 samples. The 10 NTM isolates were also identified to the species level using PCR-restriction fragment length polymorphism. Our findings indicate that NTM in hospital tap water are the possible cause of false positives in acid-fast staining and of nosocomial infection in immunocompromised patients.
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pubmed:commentsCorrections |
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pubmed:language |
eng
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pubmed:journal |
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pubmed:citationSubset |
IM
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pubmed:status |
MEDLINE
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pubmed:month |
Jun
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pubmed:issn |
0099-2240
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pubmed:author |
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pubmed:issnType |
Print
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pubmed:volume |
68
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pubmed:owner |
NLM
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pubmed:authorsComplete |
Y
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pubmed:pagination |
3159-61
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pubmed:dateRevised |
2009-11-18
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pubmed:meshHeading |
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pubmed:year |
2002
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pubmed:articleTitle |
Identification of nontuberculous mycobacteria existing in tap water by PCR-restriction fragment length polymorphism.
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pubmed:affiliation |
Department of Medical Research, Yuan's General Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Republic of China.
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pubmed:publicationType |
Journal Article,
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
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