Stability of DNA Patterns and Evidence of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Reactivation Occurring Decades after the Initial Infection

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 188, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 1032-1039

  Lillebaek, Troels ^a   Dirksen, Asger ^c   Vynnycky, Emilia ^d   Baess, Inga ^a   Thomsen, Vibeke Ø ^a   Andersen, Åse B ^b  

^a STATENS SERUM INSTITUT   (Denmark)

^b Rigshospitalet   (Denmark)

^c GENTOFTE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^d LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENMARK; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; GENETIC STABILITY; HISTORY; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; HUMAN; INFECTION RATE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGY; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; STRAIN IDENTIFICATION; TUBERCULOSIS;

ADULT; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DENMARK; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA, BACTERIAL; EPIDEMIOLOGY, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 0142074318     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/378240     Document Type: Article

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