Prevalence of Haarlem I and Beijing types of Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains in Iranian and Afghan MDR-TB patients

Journal of Infection

Volumn 53, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 331-336

  Farnia, Parissa ^a   Masjedi, Mohamad Reza ^a   Mirsaeidi, Mehdi ^a   Mohammadi, Foroozan ^a   Jallaledin Ghanavi, ^a   Vincent, Veronique ^b   Bahadori, Moslem ^a   Velayati, Ali Akbar ^a  

^a SHAHID BEHESHTI UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

Author keywords

Beijing; MDR TB; Spoligotyping

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFGHANISTAN; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; IMMIGRANT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; IRAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; PREVALENCE; TUBERCULOSIS;

ADULT; AFGHANISTAN; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IRAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PREVALENCE; SEROTYPING; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TUBERCULOSIS, MULTIDRUG-RESISTANT;

EID: 33749681872     PISSN: 01634453     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jinf.2005.12.020     Document Type: Article

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