Mycobacterium tuberculosis Beijing Genotype

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 9, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 1553-1557

  Lillebaek, Troels ^a,f   Andersen, Åse B ^b   Dirksen, Asger ^c   Glynn, Judith R ^d   Kremer, Kristin ^e  

^a Natl Inst Prev Ctrl Infec Dis   (Denmark)

^b Rigshospitalet   (Denmark)

^c GENTOFTE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

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

^e NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (Netherlands)

^f STATENS SERUM INSTITUT   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; ETHAMBUTOL; ISONIAZID; PYRAZINAMIDE; RIFAMPICIN; STREPTOMYCIN; TUBERCULOSTATIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CHINA; DNA FINGERPRINTING; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; IMMIGRANT; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 0345601065     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid0912.030276     Document Type: Article

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