Transmission of Multidrug-Resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis among Persons with Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infection in an Urban Hospital: Epidemiologic and Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphism Analysis

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 168, Issue 4, 1993, Pages 1052-1055

  Beck Sague, Consuelo M ^a,b   Coronado, Victor G ^a,b   Hutton, Mary D ^a,b   Davis, Barry J ^a,b   Nicholas, Peter ^a,b   Villareal, Carmelita ^a,b   Woodley, Charles L ^a,b   Kilburn, James O ^a,b   Crawford, Jack T ^a,b   Frieden, Thomas R ^a,b   Sinkowitz, Ronda L ^a,b   Jarvis, William R ^a,b  

^a NATL CENTER FOR INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^b ELMHURST HOSPITAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; RISK FACTOR; URBAN POPULATION;

AIDS-RELATED OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTIONS; CROSS INFECTION; DNA, BACTERIAL; DRUG RESISTANCE; HOSPITALS, URBAN; HUMAN; ISONIAZID; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NEW YORK CITY; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; RIFAMPIN; STREPTOMYCIN; TIME FACTORS; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 0027176613     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: 15376613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/infdis/168.4.1052     Document Type: Article

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