Suspected small-scale interpersonal transmission of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in wards of an urban hospital in Delhi, India

American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 70, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 527-531

  Bhanu, N Vijaya ^a   Banavalikar, J N ^b   Kapoor, S K ^c   Seth, Pradeep ^d  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF DIABETES AND DIGESTIVE AND KIDNEY DISEASES   (United States)

^b Tuberculosis Clinic   (India)

^c Comprehensive Rural Health Centre ^*  (India)

^d ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; AMINOSALICYLIC ACID; DNA; ETHAMBUTOL; ISONIAZID; RIFAMPICIN; STREPTOMYCIN; TUBERCULOSTATIC AGENT;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DNA SEQUENCE; HUMAN; INDIA; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SPUTUM CULTURE; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; TUBERCULOSIS; URBAN AREA;

ACTINOBACTERIA (CLASS); BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); INSERTION SEQUENCES; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; UNCULTURED ACTINOMYCETE; UNIDENTIFIED INSERTION SEQUENCE;

EID: 2442677814     PISSN: 00029637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.2004.70.527     Document Type: Article

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