Evidence of exogenous reinfection and mixed infection with more than one strain of Mycobacterium tuberculosis among Spanish HIV-infected inmates

AIDS

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 615-620

  Chaves, Fernando ^a   Dronda, Fernando ^b   Alonso Sanz, Mercedes ^c   Noriega, Antonio R ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO 12 DE OCTUBRE   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL RAMÓN Y CAJAL   (Spain)

^c Clinical Microbiology Laboratory   (Spain)

Author keywords

DNA typing; HIV infection; Molecular epidemiology; Mycobacterium tuberculosis; Prison; Tuberculosis; Tuberculosis control program; Tuberculosis reinfection

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; MALE; MIXED INFECTION; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRISONER; REINFECTION; SPAIN; TUBERCULOSIS;

ADULT; AIDS-RELATED OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PRISONERS; SPAIN; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 0032990490     PISSN: 02699370     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00002030-199904010-00011     Document Type: Article

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