article_snippet: (CNN)The misuse of outer protective garments may have led to the exposure of a potentially deadly strain of bacteria at the Tulane National Primate Research Center near New Orleans, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Friday.
article_snippet: Inspectors from the CDC and the U.S. Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service said the misuse of outer garments "could have led to the bacteria clinging to inner garments and getting carried out of the select agent lab where research was being conducted with the bacteria on mice," a news release said.
article_snippet: Additionally, The CDC and APHIS inspectors determined that Tulane primate center staff frequently entered the select agent lab without appropriate protective clothing, which would increase the risk of bringing the bacteria out of the select agent lab or becoming infected the bacteria.
highlights_snippet: The error "could have led to the bacteria clinging to inner garments and getting carried out" of a lab, inspectors say .
  
highlights_snippet: Also, "staff frequently entered the select agent lab without appropriate protective clothing"
  