Molecular fingerprinting of multidrug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains in Beirut reveals genetic diversity and father to daughter transmission

Journal Medical Libanais

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 4-8

  Ahmad, Suhail ^a   Itani, Lina Y ^b   Araj, George F ^b  

^a KUWAIT UNIVERSITY   (Kuwait)

^b AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT   (Lebanon)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA FRAGMENT; ISONIAZID; RIFAMPICIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CHILD; DNA FINGERPRINTING; FATHER; FEMALE; GENE; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; KATG GENE; LEBANON; MALE; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; RPOB GENE; TUBERCULOSIS;

ADULT; AGED; CHILD; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEBANON; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; TUBERCULOSIS, PULMONARY;

EID: 2542468814     PISSN: 00239852     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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