Differentiation of tuberculosis strains in a population with mainly Beijing-family strains

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 12, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 1406-1413

  Nikolayevskyy, Vladyslav ^a   Gopaul, Krishna ^a   Balabanova, Yanina ^a,b   Brown, Timothy ^a   Fedorin, Ivan ^b   Drobniewski, Francis ^a  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b Samara Regional Tuberculosis Service   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE LOCUS; GENE MAPPING; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; INTERSPERSED REPEAT; MALE; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; TANDEM REPEAT; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 33749014951     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1209.041263     Document Type: Article

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