Transmission of drug-resistant tuberculosis in Texas and Mexico

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 40, Issue 8, 2002, Pages 2716-2724

  Quitugua, Teresa N ^a   Seaworth, Barbara J ^a   Weis, Stephen E ^a   Taylor, Jeffery P ^a   Gillette, J Seb ^a   Rosas, Ishmael I ^a   Jost Jr , Kenneth C ^a   Magee, D Mitchel ^a   Cox, Rebecca A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIMYCOBACTERIAL AGENT; ETHAMBUTOL; ISONIAZID; RIFAMPICIN; STREPTOMYCIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FEMALE; GENE CLUSTER; GENOTYPE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEXICO; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TUBERCULOSIS; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTITUBERCULAR AGENTS; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MALE; MEXICO; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; TEXAS; TUBERCULOSIS, MULTIDRUG-RESISTANT; TUBERCULOSIS, PULMONARY;

ACTINOBACTERIA (CLASS); HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; UNCULTURED ACTINOMYCETE;

EID: 0036702148     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.40.8.2716-2724.2002     Document Type: Article

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