Mycobacterium canettii, the smooth variant of M. tuberculosis, isolated from a Swiss patient exposed in Africa

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 631-634

  Pfyffer, Gaby E ^a   Auckenthaler, Raymond ^b   Van Embden, Jan D A ^c   Van Soolingen, Dick ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CASE REPORT; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; REVIEW; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SOMALIA; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 0031789025     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid0404.980414     Document Type: Review

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