Against all odds: molecular confirmation of an implausible case of bone tuberculosis.
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.
Loïez
Caroline
C
Laboratoire de Bactériologie-Hygiène, Centre Hospitalier Régional Universitaire, Lille, France. c-loiez@chru-lille.fr
Willery
Eve
E
Legrand
J-Louis
JL
Vincent
Véronique
V
Gutierrez
Maria Cristina
MC
Courcol
René J
RJ
Supply
Philip
P
D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D006801:Humans; D020071:Interspersed Repetitive Sequences; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009169:Mycobacterium tuberculosis / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D014394:Tuberculosis, Osteoarticular / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000382:microbiology