Recurrence of tuberculosis at a Sydney chest clinic between 1994 and 2006: Reactivation or reinfection?

Medical Journal of Australia

Volumn 188, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 153-155

  Dobler, Claudia C ^a   Marks, Guy B ^a   Simpson, Sheila E ^a   Crawford, A B Hamish ^a  

^a LIVERPOOL HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ETHAMBUTOL; ISONIAZID; PYRAZINAMIDE; RIFAMPICIN;

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CASE REPORT; DNA FINGERPRINTING; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFECTION CONTROL; MALE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PATIENT IDENTIFICATION; POSTPRIMARY TUBERCULOSIS; RECURRENT INFECTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SHORT COURSE THERAPY; TREATMENT FAILURE; TUBERCULOSIS; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MICROBIOLOGY; RECURRENT DISEASE;

AUSTRALIA; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; RECURRENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TUBERCULOSIS, PULMONARY;

EID: 42449121975     PISSN: 0025729X     EISSN: 13265377     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5694/j.1326-5377.2008.tb01558.x     Document Type: Article

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