Molecular fingerprinting of Mycobacterium tuberculosis: How can it help the clinician?

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 806-810

  Behr, Marcel A ^a   Small, Peter M ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA;

BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DNA FINGERPRINTING; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; MYCOBACTERIOSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 0030791769     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/515550     Document Type: Note

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