Molecular identification of streptomycin monoresistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis related to multidrug-resistant W strain

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 842-848

  Bifani, Pablo ^a,b   Mathema, Barun ^a   Campo, Martha ^a   Moghazeh, Soraya ^a   Nivin, Beth ^c   Shashkina, Elena ^a   Driscoll, Jeffrey ^d   Munsiff, Sonal S ^c   Frothingham, Richard ^e   Kreiswirth, Barry N ^a  

^a PUBLIC HEALTH RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c NEW YORK CITY DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND MENTAL HYGIENE   (United States)

^d NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH   (United States)

^e DURHAM VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENE PRODUCT; PROTEIN RPSL; STREPTOMYCIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CODON; ETHNOLOGY; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENOTYPE; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; HYBRIDIZATION; INFECTION RISK; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; RISK FACTOR; SEROLOGY; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; TANDEM REPEAT; TECHNIQUE;

EID: 0035204732     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid0705.010512     Document Type: Article

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