Mycobacterium tuberculosis transmission between cluster members with similar fingerprint patterns

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 8, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 1257-1259

  Ijaz, Kashef ^a,e   Yang, Zhenhua ^b,e   Stewart Matthews, H ^c,e   Bates, Joseph H ^c,d,e   Donald Cave, M ^d,e  

^a CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c ARKANSAS DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH   (United States)

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

^e CENTRAL ARKANSAS VETERANS HEALTHCARE SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DNA FINGERPRINTING; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; HUMAN; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; TUBERCULOSIS; TUBERCULOSIS CONTROL;

EID: 0036847734     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid0811.020284     Document Type: Article

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