Analysis of tuberculosis transmission between nationalities in the Netherlands in the period 1993-1995 using DNA fingerprinting

American Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 147, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 187-195

  Borgdorff, Martien W ^a,b   Nagelkerke, Nico ^a,c,d   Van Soolingen, Dick ^a   De Haas, Petra E W ^a   Veen, Jaap ^b   Van Embden, Jan D A ^a  

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

^b KNCV TUBERCULOSIS FOUNDATION   (Netherlands)

^c ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Clustering; Epidemiology, molecular; Polymorphism, restriction fragment length; Transmission; Tuberculosis

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DNA FINGERPRINTING; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMIGRATION; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOROCCO; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NETHERLANDS; NONHUMAN; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SOMALIA; SURINAME; TUBERCULOSIS CONTROL; TURKEY (REPUBLIC); YUGOSLAVIA (PRE-1992);

MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 0032518737     PISSN: 00029262     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.aje.a009433     Document Type: Article

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