Transmission of multiresistant tuberculosis in a Dutch hospital;Transmissie van multiresistente tuberculose in een Nederlands ziekenhuis

Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Geneeskunde

Volumn 140, Issue 46, 1996, Pages 2293-2295

  Lambregts Van Weezenbeek, C S B ^a   Keizer, S T ^b   Sebek M M G G ^a   Schepp Beelen, J C H M ^c   Van Der Loo, C J ^d  

^a Koninklijke Nederlandse Ctrl V   (Netherlands)

^b MUNICIPAL HEALTH SERVICE   (Netherlands)

^c Municipal Medical and Health Service of The Hague   (Netherlands)

^d GGD Oost Veluwe   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ETHAMBUTOL; ISONIAZID; PYRAZINAMIDE; RIFAMPICIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DNA FINGERPRINTING; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; MALE; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NETHERLANDS; TUBERCULOSIS;

ADULT; CROSS INFECTION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, HORIZONTAL; HUMANS; MALE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; TUBERCULOSIS, MULTIDRUG-RESISTANT; TUBERCULOSIS, PULMONARY;

EID: 0029808882     PISSN: 00282162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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