National tuberculosis genotyping and surveillance network: Design and methods

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 8, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 1192-1196

  Crawford, Jack T ^a   Braden, Christopher R ^a   Schable, Barbara A ^a   Onorato, Ida M ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COOPERATION; DATA BASE; GENOTYPE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE; TUBERCULOSIS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0036849906     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid0811.020296     Document Type: Article

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