Nosocomial Transmission of Multidrug-Resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis in Spain

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 125-129

  Rullán, John V ^a   Herrera, Dionisio ^a   Cano, Rosa ^a   Moreno, Victoria ^a   Godoy, Pere ^a   Peiró, Enrique F ^a   Castell, Juan ^a   Ibañez, Consuelo ^a   Ortega, Arturo ^a   Sánchez Agudo, Leopoldo ^a   Pozo, Francisco ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE SALUD CARLOS III   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; ISONIAZID; RIFAMPICIN;

ADULT; AIDS RELATED COMPLEX; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; CROSS INFECTION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; GENETICS; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; SPAIN; TUBERCULOSIS;

ADULT; AIDS-RELATED OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTIONS; CROSS INFECTION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, PATIENT-TO-PROFESSIONAL; DNA, BACTERIAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE; FEMALE; HUMANS; ISONIAZID; MALE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; RIFAMPIN; SPAIN; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 0030115433     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid0202.960208     Document Type: Article

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