An outbreak involving extensive transmission of a virulent strain of Mycobacterium tuberculosis

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 338, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 633-639

  Valway, Sarah E ^a,b   Sanchez, Maria Pia C ^b   Shinnick, Thomas F ^c   Orme, Ian ^d   Agerton, Tracy ^a,b   Hoy, Debbie ^e   Jones, J Scott ^f   Westmoreland, Harriet ^e   Onorato, Ida M ^a  

^a CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^b CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^c NATL CENTER FOR INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^d Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences

^e TENNESSEE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH   (United States)

^f Kentucky Department for Public Health   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; EPIDEMIC; HUMAN; MALE; MOUSE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TUBERCULIN TEST; TUBERCULOSIS;

ADULT; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CONTACT TRACING; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DNA, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; KENTUCKY; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; RURAL POPULATION; TENNESSEE; TUBERCULOSIS; VIRULENCE;

EID: 0032485465     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM199803053381001     Document Type: Article

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