Extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis, Pakistan

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 16, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1473-1475

  Hasan, Rumina ^a   Jabeen, Kauser ^a   Ali, Asho ^a   Rafiq, Yasraba ^a   Laiq, Rabia ^a   Malik, Babar ^a   Tanveer, Mahnaz ^a   Groenheit, Ramona ^b   Ghebremichael, Solomon ^b   Hoffner, Sven ^b   Hasan, Zahra ^a  

^a AGA KHAN UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

^b SWEDISH INSTITUTE FOR INFECTIOUS DISEASE CONTROL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; CAPREOMYCIN; CIPROFLOXACIN; DNA; ETHAMBUTOL; ETHIONAMIDE; ISONIAZID; KANAMYCIN; PYRAZINAMIDE; RIFAMPICIN; STREPTOMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA EXTRACTION; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INTERSPERSED REPEAT; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; PAKISTAN; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; TREND STUDY; TUBERCULOSIS; VARIABLE NUMBER OF TANDEM REPEAT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; EXTENSIVELY DRUG-RESISTANT TUBERCULOSIS; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; INTERSPERSED REPETITIVE SEQUENCES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MINISATELLITE REPEATS; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PAKISTAN; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77956027825     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1609.100280     Document Type: Article

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