Transmission of a multidrug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis strain resembling 'strain W' among noninstitutionalized, human immunodeficiency virus-seronegative patients

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 180, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 1608-1615

  Van Annelies, Rie ^a,c   Warren, Robin M ^a   Beyers, Nulda ^a   Gie, Robert P ^a   Classen, Collette N ^b   Richardson, Madalene ^a   Sampson, Samantha L ^a   Victor, Thomas C ^a   Van Helden, Paul D ^a,d  

^a STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WESTERN CAPE   (South Africa)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^d Dept of Medical Biochemistry ^*  (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ETHAMBUTOL; ETHIONAMIDE; ISONIAZID; RIFAMPICIN; STREPTOMYCIN; THIOACETAZONE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; GENOTYPE; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; MALE; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUTH AFRICA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTITUBERCULAR AGENTS; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; CHILD; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FEMALE; HIV SERONEGATIVITY; HUMANS; INSTITUTIONALIZATION; MALE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; SOUTH AFRICA; SPUTUM; TUBERCULOSIS, MULTIDRUG-RESISTANT;

EID: 0032704623     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/315054     Document Type: Article

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