Transmission of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in a rural community, Arkansas, 1945-2000

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 8, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 1246-1248

  Dillaha, Jennifer A ^a,b   Yang, Zhenhua ^a,b   Ijaz, Kashef ^c   Eisenach, Kathleen D ^a,b   Donald Cave, M ^a,b   Wilson, Frank J ^c   Stead, William W ^c   Bates, Joseph H ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES   (United States)

^b CENTRAL ARKANSAS VETERANS HEALTHCARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^c ARKANSAS DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA FINGERPRINTING; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; MALE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; RURAL POPULATION; TUBERCULOSIS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0036847711     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid0811.020299     Document Type: Article

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