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Journal of Clinical Microbiology, Sep 1997, 2422-2423, Vol 35, No. 9
Copyright © 1997 by the American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.

Wooden sticks as the source of a pseudoepidemic of infection with Rhizopus microsporus var. rhizopodiformis among immunocompromised patients

PE Verweij, A Voss, JP Donnelly, BE de Pauw and JF Meis
Department of Medical Microbiology, University Hospital Nijmegen, The Netherlands. P.Verweij@mmb.azn.nl

Wooden sticks used to suspend feces obtained for surveillance cultures were found to be the source of Rhizopus microsporus var. rhizopodiformis causing a pseudo-outbreak among 17 immunocompromised patients cared for in three different wards. Nonsterile wooden products should therefore not be used for collecting, handling, and processing specimens for microbiological examination.

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