Laboratory exposure to Coccidioides: lessons learnt in a non-endemic country

We report on an inadvertent exposure of 44 persons to Coccidioides posadasii in a clinical microbiology laboratory in Chile, the measures of containment after rapid diagnosis with matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry, and the lessons learnt in a non-endemic setting.
Source: Journal of Hospital Infection - Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: research