Generic distances for the study of infectious disease epidemiology

American Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 151, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 324-334

  Salamon, Hugh ^a,b   Behr, Marcel A ^b   Rhee, Jeanne T ^b   Small, Peter M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

DNA fingerprinting; Epidemiology, molecular; Tuberculosis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DNA FINGERPRINTING; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC DISTANCE; INFECTION; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; UNITED STATES; GENETICS; HUMAN; TUBERCULOSIS;

DNA FINGERPRINTING; HUMANS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; SAN FRANCISCO; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 0034131556     PISSN: 00029262     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.aje.a010209     Document Type: Article

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