Molecular typing of mycobacterium bovis isolates in Argentina: First description of a person-to-person transmission case

Zoonoses and Public Health

Volumn 57, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 375-381

  Etchechoury, I ^a   Valencia, G Echeverría ^a   Morcillo, N ^b   Sequeira, M D ^c   Imperiale, B ^b   Lopez M ^c   Caimi, K ^a   Zumarraga M J ^a   Cataldi, A ^a   Romano, M I ^a  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE TECNOLOGÍA AGROPECUARIA INTA   (Argentina)

^b Hospital Zonal de Agudos y Cronicos Dr Antonio A Cetrangolo   (Argentina)

^c Instituto Nacional de Enfermedades Respiratorias Dr Emilio Coni   (Argentina)

Author keywords

human TB; MDR M. bovis; Mycobacterium bovis; spoligotyping; variable number tandem repeat

Indexed keywords

ISONIAZID; PYRAZINAMIDE; RIFAMPICIN; STREPTOMYCIN;

ARGENTINA; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BOVINE TUBERCULOSIS; CATTLE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FEMALE; HOST; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MOLECULAR TYPING; MULTIDRUG RESISTANT TUBERCULOSIS; MULTIPLEX POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; MYCOBACTERIUM GORDONAE; MYCOBACTERIUM INTRACELLULARE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTION MAPPING; VARIABLE NUMBER OF TANDEM REPEAT; VERTICAL TRANSMISSION;

ANIMALS; ARGENTINA; CATTLE; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MINISATELLITE REPEATS; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MOLECULAR TYPING; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TUBERCULOSIS;

BOS; BOVINAE; MAMMALIA; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; MYCOBACTERIUM GORDONAE; MYCOBACTERIUM INTRACELLULARE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS COMPLEX;

EID: 77955805936     PISSN: 18631959     EISSN: 18632378     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1863-2378.2009.01233.x     Document Type: Article

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