High transmissibility of the modern Beijing Mycobacterium tuberculosis in homeless patients of Japan

Tuberculosis

Volumn 89, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 252-255

  Wada, Takayuki ^a   Fujihara, Sami ^a   Shimouchi, Akira ^b   Harada, Makoto ^c   Ogura, Hisashi ^c   Matsumoto, Sohkichi ^c   Hase, Atsushi ^a  

^a OSAKA CITY INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b Osaka City Public Health Center   (Japan)

^c OSAKA CITY UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Beijing family; Homeless; Japan; Mycobacterium tuberculosis; VNTR

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; FEMALE; GENETIC STRAIN; GENOTYPE; HOMELESSNESS; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; JAPAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; POPULATION GENETIC STRUCTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; TANDEM REPEAT; TUBERCULOSIS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HOMELESS PERSONS; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TANDEM REPEAT SEQUENCES; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 67650573155     PISSN: 14729792     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tube.2009.05.007     Document Type: Article

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