Molecular techniques in the diagnosis of Mycobacterium tuberculosis and the detection of drug resistance

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 953, Issue , 2001, Pages 138-145

  Caws, M ^a   Drobniewski, F A ^a  

^a KING S COLLEGE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Drug resistance; Multidrug resistant tuberculosis; Mycobacterium tuberculosis; TB microbiology

Indexed keywords

ISONIAZID; RIFAMPICIN;

CONFERENCE PAPER; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; GENOTYPE; INCIDENCE; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PHENOTYPE; TUBERCULOSIS;

MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 0035690043     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2001.tb11371.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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