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Minnesota tissue implant death prompts donor surgery warning

This article was originally published in Clinica

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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has raised concerns about the safety of cadaver tissue after finding that a patient died in Minnesota following routine knee surgery due to possibly contaminated cartilage allograft. The 23-year-old patient was infected with Clostridium sordellii, a rare bacterium usually found in soil and faecal matter.

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