Second Tuberculosis Outbreak Linked To Contaminated Bone Allografts Resulted In Five Cases And Two Deaths So Far, CDC Data Find

MedPage Today (1/4, Kahn) reports, “Contaminated bone allograft material from a single manufacturer led to five diagnosed cases of tuberculosis and two deaths so far, according to CDC data.” Last July, “clinicians in two different states rapidly diagnosed and reported two cases of TB in patients who previously underwent spinal surgical procedures that used bone allografts.” Healio (1/4, Stulpin) reports, “Further results of the investigation showed that five of 36 surgical bone allograft recipients received laboratory-confirmed TB disease diagnoses.” The findings were published in the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.