Identification of a W variant outbreak of Mycobacterium tuberculosis via population-based molecular epidemiology

JAMA

Volumn 282, Issue 24, 1999, Pages 2321-2327

  Bifani, Pablo J ^a   Mathema, Barun ^a   Liu, Zhiyuan ^a   Moghazeh, Soraya L ^a   Shopsin, Bo ^a   Tempalski, Barbara ^a   Driscoll, Jeffrey ^a   Frothingham, Richard ^a   Musser, James M ^a   Alcabes, Philip ^a   Kreiswirth, Barry N ^a  

^a PUBLIC HEALTH RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; DNA FINGERPRINTING; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; TUBERCULOSIS; VARIABLE NUMBER OF TANDEM REPEAT;

EID: 0033596265     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.282.24.2321     Document Type: Article

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