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.
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Minemura, Nobuyoshi
Dhaliwal, Gurpreet
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Univ Calif San Francisco, Dept Med, San Francisco, CA USA
San Francisco VA Med Ctr, San Francisco, CA USANatl Sanat Tama Zenshoen, Div Internal Med, Higashimurayama, Tokyo 1898550, Japan
Dhaliwal, Gurpreet
Tierney, Lawrence M., Jr.
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