Molecular epidemiology of multidrug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis in Eastern Taiwan

International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease

Volumn 14, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 924-926

  Hsu, A H ^a   Lin, C B ^a   Lee, Y S ^a,b   Chiang, C Y ^c   Chen, L K ^a   Tsai, Y S ^a   Lee, Jen Jyh ^a  

^a TZU CHI UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b CENTER FOR DISEASE CONTROL   (Taiwan)

^c INTERNATIONAL UNION AGAINST TUBERCULOSIS AND LUNG DISEASE   (France)

Author keywords

MIRU VNTR; Multidrug resistant tuberculosis; Spoligo typing; Transmission

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM EXAMINATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIDRUG RESISTANT TUBERCULOSIS; MYCOBACTERIAL INTERSPERSED REPETITIVE UNIT VARIABLE NUMBER OF TANDEM REPEAT; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPOLIGOTYPING; TAIWAN; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; TRANSMISSION; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AGED; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; TAIWAN; TUBERCULOSIS, MULTIDRUG-RESISTANT; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77953638456     PISSN: 10273719     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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