Mycobacterium bovis strains causing smear-positive human tuberculosis, southwest Ireland

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 14, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 1931-1934

  Ojo, Olabisi ^a   Sheehan, Stella ^b   Corcoran, G Daniel ^b   Okker, Melissa ^c   Gover, Karen ^c   Nikolayevsky, Vladyslav ^d   Brown, Timothy ^d   Dale, James ^c   Gordon, Stephen V ^c,e   Drobniewski, Francis ^d   Prentice, Michael B ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

^b University College Cork and INFANT Centre   (Ireland)

^c VETERINARY LABORATORIES AGENCY   (United Kingdom)

^d PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; GENE LOCUS; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; INTERSPERSED REPEAT; IRELAND; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MOLECULAR TYPING; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; SPUTUM SMEAR; STRAIN IDENTIFICATION; TUBERCULOSIS; VARIABLE NUMBER OF TANDEM REPEAT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; CATTLE; CONTACT TRACING; EPIDEMIOLOGY, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERSPERSED REPETITIVE SEQUENCES; IRELAND; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MINISATELLITE REPEATS; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; OLIGONUCLEOTIDES; SPUTUM; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 57049113246     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1412.071135     Document Type: Article

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