Global dissemination of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis W-Beijing family strains

Trends in Microbiology

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 45-52

  Bifani, Pablo J ^a   Mathema, Barun ^b   Kurepina, Natalia E ^b   Kreiswirth, Barry N ^b  

^a INSTITUT PASTEUR DE LILLE   (France)

^b PUBLIC HEALTH RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASIA; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HOST; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; NORTH AMERICA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; UNITED STATES;

EPIDEMIOLOGY, MOLECULAR; FAR EAST; HUMANS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; TUBERCULOSIS; UNITED STATES; USSR; VARIATION (GENETICS);

ACTINOBACTERIA (CLASS); MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PROKARYOTA; UNCULTURED ACTINOMYCETE;

EID: 0036147534     PISSN: 0966842X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0966-842X(01)02277-6     Document Type: Review

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