A multidrug-resistant tuberculosis microepidemic caused by genetically closely related Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 37, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 2715-2716

  Kubin M ^a   Havelkova M ^a   Hyncicova I ^a   Svecova Z ^b   Kaustova J ^c   Kremer, K ^d   Van Soolingen, D ^d  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Czech Republic)

^b Faculty of Medicine   (Czech Republic)

^c Regional Institute of Hygiene   (Czech Republic)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ETHAMBUTOL; ISONIAZID; RIFAMPICIN; STREPTOMYCIN;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CZECHOSLOVAKIA; DNA FINGERPRINTING; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; MALE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TUBERCULOSIS;

ANIMALIA; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; RICKETTSIALES;

EID: 0032804252     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jcm.37.8.2715-2716.1999     Document Type: Article

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