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Multiorgan and tissue donors offer a large quantity and high quality of bone allograft that cannot be obtained from living donors. The risk of bone contamination must be borne in mind if secondary sterilization is not performed. The bacteriological cultures of 270 bone segments obtained from 53 multiorgan or tissue donors were analysed to study the relationship between previous organ and tissue procurements and bone retrieval contamination. We concluded that no significant differences in bacterial contamination percentage were found for each type of previous organ and tissue procurement, nor in the number of teams per donor.
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Received: 26 September 1997
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Segur, J., Suso, S., García, S. et al. Bone allograft contamination in multiorgan and tissue donors. Arch Orth Traum Surg 118, 156–158 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1007/s004020050337
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s004020050337