Tuberculosis in the caribbean: Using spacer oligonucleotide typing to understand strain origin and transmission

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 404-414

  Sola, Christophe ^a   Devallois, Anne ^a   Horgen, Lionel ^a   Maïsetti, Jérôme ^a   Filliol, Ingrid ^a   Legrand, Eric ^a   Rastogi, Nalin ^a  

^a Institut Pasteur de Guadeloupe   (Guadeloupe)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OLIGONUCLEOTIDE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BIODIVERSITY; CARIBBEAN ISLANDS; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EVOLUTION; GENOTYPE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POPULATION STRUCTURE; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 0033063739     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid0503.990311     Document Type: Article

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