Retina 13" macbook pro issue with defective USB ports?

I have a late 2013 13" macbook pro with retina display. I'm having persistent issues with both USB ports. Connected peripherals like keyboards or external USB drives either will not be recognized at all, or will take a very long time (minutes) to be recognized by the system.
I'm running the latest version of Mavericks OS X 10.9 (13A2093) at the moment, which includes the keyboard/trackpad firmware fix that addressed initial issues with this series of laptops.
I took it to the local Genius Bar a few days ago and the Apple Genius was able to get an external USB drive to mount (eventually) on each port, but now it seems that waiting several minutes for the external device/drive to be recognized does no good.
Is anyone else experiencing similar issues?

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