Two deaths and five infections of tuberculosis have been confirmed from spinal surgeries that used a bone allograft from an infected donor, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said. Piron ...
Bone graft materials contaminated with tuberculosis (TB) were used in three dozen dental and medical procedures, causing infections in five people, including one who died, according to the U.S.
MARION TOWNSHIP, Mich. (WXYZ) — A Michigan woman has died just months following an elective back surgery after doctors discovered the bone graft material used in ...
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is calling for improved donor screening and testing capping its investigation into bone graft materials infected with tuberculosis (TB) that ...
Health regulators in the United States are working to respond to a potential tuberculosis outbreak that's linked to a company's tainted bone graft products. Three new cases of the highly unusual and ...
A recent tuberculosis outbreak linked to contaminated bone graft material cost one person’s life and infected at least four others. The incident underscores the inadequacy of current tuberculosis ...
Tuberculosis (TB) is one of the world's most common infectious diseases. Although infection with the Mycobacterium ...