Molecular epidemiology of tuberculosis in the Netherlands: A nationwide study from 1993 through 1997

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 180, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 726-736

  Van Soolingen, Dick ^a   Borgdorff, Martien W ^b   De Haas, Petra E W ^a   Sebek, Maruschka M G G ^b   Veen, Jaap ^b   Dessens, Mirjam ^a   Kremer, Kristin ^a   Van Embden, Jan D A ^a  

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

^b KNCV TUBERCULOSIS FOUNDATION   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; ISONIAZID; STREPTOMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CONTACT EXAMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ETHNOLOGY; GENETIC EPIDEMIOLOGY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFECTION RISK; MASCULINITY; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NETHERLANDS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; TUBERCULOSIS; URBAN POPULATION;

ADULT; AGED; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMORBIDITY; CONTACT TRACING; DEMOGRAPHY; EPIDEMIOLOGY, MOLECULAR; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NETHERLANDS; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; RISK FACTORS; SURINAME; TUBERCULOSIS; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 0032844976     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/314930     Document Type: Article

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