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To the Editor: Kirschke et al. and Srinivasan et al. (Jan. 16 issue)^1,2 report contamination associated with a defect in bronchoscopes in the United States. A similar event occurred in Lyons, France, during the same period. From March 5, 2001, to October 19, 2001, 117 instances of contamination of bronchoalveolar-lavage specimens with Enterobacteriaceae were identified among 418 patients during three outbreaks of infection.

Only patients examined with two identified bronchoscopes (bronchoscopes A and B in Figure 1) were contaminated. During the first outbreak, each pair of microorganisms detected was associated with one of these bronchoscopes (Klebsiella pneumoniae and . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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