Tuberculosis acquired outside of households, rural Vietnam

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 16, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1466-1468

  Buu, Tran N ^a   van Soolingen, Dick ^b   Huyen, Mai N T ^a   Lan, Nguyen N T ^a   Quy, Hoang T ^a   Tiemersma, Edine W ^c   Borgdorff, Martien W ^d   Cobelens, Frank G J ^d  

^a Pham Ngoc Thach Hospital   (Viet Nam)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (Netherlands)

^c KNCV TUBERCULOSIS FOUNDATION   (Netherlands)

^d ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; POPULATION RESEARCH; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; RURAL AREA; SPUTUM CULTURE; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; TUBERCULOSIS; VARIABLE NUMBER OF TANDEM REPEAT; VIET NAM;

ADULT; AGED; FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MINISATELLITE REPEATS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RURAL POPULATION; TUBERCULOSIS, PULMONARY; VIETNAM;

EID: 77956046758     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1609.100281     Document Type: Article

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