Genotyping of rifampin-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates from western Turkey

Annals of Saudi Medicine

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 102-105

  Cavusoglu, Cengiz ^a   Durmaz, Riza ^b   Bilgic, Altinay ^a   Gunal, Selami ^a  

^a EGE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Turkey)

^b INONU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

DNA fingerprinting; Multidrug resistant tuberculosis; Multiple drug resistance; Mycobaterium tuberculosis; Rifampin; Turkey

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; ETHAMBUTOL; ISONIAZID; RIFAMPICIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA FINGERPRINTING; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; MOLECULAR CLONING; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SAMPLING; SPUTUM ANALYSIS; TURKEY (REPUBLIC);

EID: 1842840044     PISSN: 02564947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5144/0256-4947.2004.102     Document Type: Article

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