Evaluation and utilization as a public health tool of a national molecular epidemiological tuberculosis outbreak database within the United Kingdom from 1997 to 2001

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 41, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 1861-1868

  Drobniewski, F A ^a   Gibson, A ^a   Ruddy, M ^a   Yates, M D ^a  

^a KING S COLLEGE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; AGRICULTURE; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DATA BASE; DNA FINGERPRINTING; EPIDEMIC; ETHNIC GROUP; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ABUSE; LABORATORY; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MUSIC; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRISON; PRISONER; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SCHOOL; SKIN TEST; TUBERCULOSIS; UNITED KINGDOM;

ANTITUBERCULAR AGENTS; DATABASES, NUCLEIC ACID; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA, BACTERIAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; EPIDEMIOLOGY, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; ISONIAZID; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PUBLIC HEALTH; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TUBERCULOSIS;

ACTINOBACTERIA (CLASS); BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; UNCULTURED ACTINOMYCETE;

EID: 0037614984     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.41.5.1861-1868.2003     Document Type: Article

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