Molecular epidemiology of Mycobacterium tuberculosis clinical isolates in Southwest Ireland

Infection, Genetics and Evolution

Volumn 10, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1110-1116

  Ojo, Olabisi O ^a,f   Sheehan, Stella ^b   Corcoran, Daniel G ^b   Nikolayevsky, Vladyslav ^c   Brown, Timothy ^c   O'Sullivan, Margaret ^d   O'Sullivan, Kathleen ^a   Gordon, Stephen V ^e   Drobniewski, Francis ^c   Prentice, Michael B ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

^b Department of Medicine National University of Ireland Cork   (Ireland)

^c PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

^d HEALTH SERVICE EXECUTIVE   (Ireland)

^e UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^f UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Contact tracing; Ireland; Molecular epidemiology; Mycobacterium tuberculosis; Spoligotyping; VNTR

Indexed keywords

ETHAMBUTOL; ISONIAZID; RIFAMPICIN; STREPTOMYCIN;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; IRELAND; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MOLECULAR TYPING; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TUBERCULOSIS; VARIABLE NUMBER OF TANDEM REPEAT;

ADULT; AGED; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; HUMANS; IRELAND; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; TUBERCULOSIS;

MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS COMPLEX;

EID: 77956262274     PISSN: 15671348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.meegid.2010.07.008     Document Type: Article

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