Adenovirus pseudo-outbreak associated with bronchoscopy.

Walter C HellingerHeather C ParthBrenda T SmithLisa L BickleyMichael A BednarikElma B RegerD Jane HataAnne-Carol Burke

Published in: Infection control and hospital epidemiology (2019)

Introduction and regular application of multiplex polymerase chain reaction analysis of bronchoalveolar specimens for community-acquired respiratory viruses in January 2017 led to the identification of adenovirus in multiple patients in a surgical intensive unit in July 2017, which was attributed to a pseudo-outbreak.

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