Recurrent tuberculosis and exogenous reinfection, Shanghai, China

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 12, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 1776-1778

  Shen, Guomiao ^a   Xue, Zhen ^a   Shen, Xin ^b   Sun, Bin ^b   Gui, Xiaohong ^b   Shen, Mei ^b   Mei, Jian ^b   Gao, Qian ^a  

^a FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Shanghai Municipal Center for Disease Control and Prevention   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CHINA; DNA FINGERPRINTING; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; REINFECTION; TUBERCULOSIS; ADULT; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FEMALE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RECURRENT DISEASE;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RECURRENCE; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 33750565159     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1211.051207     Document Type: Article

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