Transmission of specific genotype streptomycin resistant strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in the Tokyo metropolitan area in Japan

BMC Infectious Diseases

Volumn 9, Issue , 2009, Pages 138-

  Ohkado, Akihiro ^a   Murase, Yoshiro ^a   Mori, Masaaki ^b   Hasegawa, Naoki ^b   Otsuka, Goro ^c   Nagamine, Michiko ^c   Maeda, Hideo ^c   Uchimura, Kazuhiro ^a   Ohmori, Masako ^a   Yamada, Norio ^a   Maeda, Shinji ^a   Kato, Seiya ^a   Mori, Toru ^a   Ishikawa, Nobukatsu ^a  

^a RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF TUBERCULOSIS   (Japan)

^b KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c Tokyo Metropolitan Government Tokyo Metropolitan Hospitals Association Patient Safety Management   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

STREPTOMYCIN;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; DNA FINGERPRINTING; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; JAPAN; MALE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; URBAN AREA; VARIABLE NUMBER OF TANDEM REPEAT;

ADULT; AGED; ANTITUBERCULAR AGENTS; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA, BACTERIAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MINISATELLITE REPEATS; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; STREPTOMYCIN; TOKYO; TUBERCULOSIS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70349966253     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2334-9-138     Document Type: Article

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