Clonal relationships in a shelter-associated outbreak of drug-resistant tuberculosis: 1983-1997

International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease

Volumn 6, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 872-878

  Miller, A C ^a   Butler, W R ^a   McInnis, B ^a   Boutotte, J ^a   Etkind, S ^a   Sharnprapai, S ^a   Bernardo, J ^a   Driscoll, J ^a   McGarry, M ^a   Crawford, J T ^a   Nardell, E ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Homeless persons; Mixed linker polymerase chain reaction molecular typing; Molecular epidemiology; Restriction fragment length polymorphism; Tuberculosis

Indexed keywords

ISONIAZID; STREPTOMYCIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIOPHAGE TYPING; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIC; HOMELESSNESS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; TUBERCULOSIS;

ANTIBIOTICS, ANTITUBERCULAR; ANTITUBERCULAR AGENTS; BOSTON; CLONE CELLS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FEMALE; HOMELESS PERSONS; HUMANS; ISONIAZID; MALE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; STREPTOMYCIN; TIME FACTORS; TUBERCULOSIS, MULTIDRUG-RESISTANT;

EID: 0036797150     PISSN: 10273719     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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