Differences in the robustness of clusters involving the Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains most frequently isolated from immigrant cases in Madrid

Clinical Microbiology and Infection

Volumn 16, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1544-1554

  Alonso Rodriguez N ^a   Martinez Lirola M ^c   Chaves, F ^d   Inigo J ^e   Herranz, M ^a,b   Ritacco, V ^f   Bouza, E ^a,b   Garcia de Viedma D ^a,b  

^a HOSPITAL GENERAL UNIVERSITARIO GREGORIO MARAÑÓN   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTO DE SALUD CARLOS III   (Spain)

^c HOSPITAL TORRECÁRDENAS   (Spain)

^d HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO 12 DE OCTUBRE   (Spain)

^e Consejería Salud Comunidad de Madrid ^*  (Argentina)

^f Administracion Nacional de Laboratorios E Institutos de Salud Dr Carlos G Malbran   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Epidemiology; Immigrants; Large clusters; Prevalent strains; Tuberculosis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CLINICAL CLASSIFICATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENETIC DATABASE; GENETIC EPIDEMIOLOGY; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; IMMIGRANT; INTERSPERSED REPEAT; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SOUTH AND CENTRAL AMERICA; SPAIN; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; VARIABLE NUMBER OF TANDEM REPEAT;

MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 77957064024     PISSN: 1198743X     EISSN: 14690691     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-0691.2010.03161.x     Document Type: Article

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