Seventy percent of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates in Hong Kong represent the Beijing genotype

Epidemiology and Infection

Volumn 127, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 169-171

  Chan, M Y ^a   Borgdorff, M ^b   Yip, C W ^a   De Haas, P E W ^b   Wong, W S ^a   Kam, K M ^a   Van Soolingen, D ^b  

^a DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH   (Hong Kong)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ETHAMBUTOL; ISONIAZID; RIFAMPICIN; STREPTOMYCIN;

ADULT; AGE; ANIMAL CELL; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CHINA; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HONG KONG; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PREVALENCE; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; VIET NAM;

CHINA; EPIDEMIOLOGY, MOLECULAR; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 0034839678     PISSN: 09502688     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0950268801005659     Document Type: Article

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