Mycobacterium tuberculosis ecology in Venezuela: Epidemiologic correlates of common spoligotypes and a large clonal cluster defined by MIRU-VNTR-24

BMC Infectious Diseases

Volumn 9, Issue , 2009, Pages 122-

  Abadía, Edgar ^a   Sequera, Monica ^c   Ortega, Dagmarys ^d   Méndez, María V ^a   Escalona, Arnelly ^a   Da Mata, Omaira ^b   Izarra, Elix ^e   Rojas, Yeimy ^a   Jaspe, Rossana ^a   Motiwala, Alifiya S ^f   Alland, David ^f   de Waard, Jacobus ^b   Takiff, Howard E ^a  

^a Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Cientificas Centro de Microbiologia y Biologia Celular   (Venezuela)

^b INSTITUTO DE BIOMEDICINA   (Venezuela)

^c UNIVERSIDAD DE CARABOBO   (Venezuela)

^d Centro Amazónico de Investigaciones y Control de Enfermedades Tropicales CAICET   (Venezuela)

^e The University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey ^*  (Venezuela)

^f RUTGERS NEW JERSEY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACID FAST BACTERIUM; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENOTYPE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOUTH AMERICA; TUBERCULOSIS; VARIABLE NUMBER OF TANDEM REPEAT; VENEZUELA; ADOLESCENT; AGED; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CLASSIFICATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; GENETICS; GEOGRAPHY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; EPIDEMIOLOGY, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; GEOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MINISATELLITE REPEATS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; PREVALENCE; TUBERCULOSIS; VENEZUELA; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70349760006     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2334-9-122     Document Type: Article

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