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TABLE 1. EXAMPLES OF MULTIPLE LABORATORY INFECTIONS IN ONE INSTITUTION 
Persons 
Reference 
Disease or Agent 
Probable Source 
Infected 
Kef. 
Date 
Brucel losis 
7 U. S. Brucella research centers 
66 
13 
1941 
Brucellosis 
Centrifuge accident 
94 
14 
1940 
Coccidioidomycosis 
Culture transfer 
13 
15-16 
1950 
Coxsackie virus 
Spill from tube 
2 
17 
1950 
Erysi peloid 
Vet. students dissecting horse 
13 
18 
1940 
Hepatitis, viral , B 
Cuts from computer cards 
5 
19 
1974 
Histoplasmosis 
Routine lab work 
9 overt 
20 
1956 
Histoplasmosis 
Med. Tech, student lab. 
18 a/ 
21 
1955 
Histoplasmosis 
Microbiol, student lab. 
26^/ 
22 
1964 
Leptospirosis (ballum) 
Handled infected mice 
8 
23 
1950 
Louping ill virus 
Intranasal inoculation of mice 
3 
24 
1934 
Lymphocytic choriomeningitis 
"Infected hamsters or fomites" 
10 
25 
1966 
Lymphocytic choriomeningitis 
Silent infection in hamsters 
48 
26 
1975 
Lymphocytic choriomeningitis 
Silent infected mice to 3 mouse 
and 3 hamster colonies in 7 labs. 
23 
27 
1973 
Marburg virus 
Monkey blood and organs 
23 
28 
1968 
Psittacosis 
"May be parrot ' powderdown '" 
11 
29 
1930 
Q fever 
"Probably due to dust" 
13 
30 
1949 
Q fever 
"Rising (animal) dust" 
15 
31 
1940 
Q fever 
Use of a centrifuge 
15 
32 
1947 
Q fever 
Harvesting infected eggs 
16 
33 
1946 
Q fever 
Harvesting infected eggs 
20 
34 
1946 
Q fever 
Not stated (German lab.) 
20 
30 
1949 
Q fever 
Use of a centrifuge 
47 
35 
1947 
Q fever 
Use of a centrifuge 
60 
36 
1946 
Q fever 
Watch autopsy sheep (students) 
150 
37 
1964 
Rift Valley fever 
Lab., and animal handling 
11 
38 
1949 
Tularemia ( RMSF Lab. ) 
Unknown-routine lab. work 
6 
39 
1926 
Tularemia (NIH) 
Handling, dissecting rodents 
6 
40 
1921 
Typhus fever 
Unknown (NIH lab.) 
17 
41 
1944 
Typhus, epidemic 
Making Weigl's vaccine 
17 
42 
1940 
Typhus, murine 
Intranasal inoculation of mice 
6 
43 
1942 
Typhus, murine 
Unsterilized glassware 
7 
44 
1954 
Typhus, murine 
Intranasal inoculation of mice 
12 
45 
1943 
Venezuelan equine encephalitis 
Drop, break, lyophile tubes 
24 
46 
1959 
Vesicular stomatitis 
Lab., and animal handling 
54 
47 
1958 
Viral hemorrhagic fever 
Airborne dry rodent urine/feces 
113 
48 
1962 
Yaba-like disease 
Handling monkeys 
5 & 15 
49 
50 
1967 
a/ 2 overt cases; b / 1 hospitalized; 25 mild or subclinical infections 
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