Epidemiologic import of tuberculosis cases whose isolates have similar but not identical IS6110 restriction fragment length polymorphism patterns

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 1228-1233

  Cave, M D ^a,b   Yang, Z H ^a,b,d   Stefanova, R ^a,b,c   Fomukong, N ^a,b   Ijaz, K ^c,e   Bates, J ^a,b,c   Eisenach, K D ^a,b  

^a CENTRAL ARKANSAS VETERANS HEALTHCARE SYSTEM   (United States)

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

^c ARKANSAS DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA HYBRIDIZATION; GC RICH SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SPOLIGOTYPE ANALYSIS; TUBERCULOSIS; UNITED STATES;

BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH;

MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 14944376363     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.43.3.1228-1233.2005     Document Type: Article

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