Mycobacterium tuberculosis Beijing lineage favors the spread of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in the Republic of Georgia

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 48, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 3544-3550

  Niemann, Stefan ^a   Diel, Roland ^b   Khechinashvili, George ^c   Gegia, Medea ^c   Mdivani, Nino ^c   Tang, Yi Wei ^d  

^a RESEARCH CENTER BORSTEL   (Germany)

^b HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

^c Georgian Foundation Against Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases   (Georgia)

^d VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; ETHAMBUTOL; ISONIAZID; RIFAMPICIN; STREPTOMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CELL LINEAGE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; GENOTYPE; GEORGIA (REPUBLIC); INTERSPERSED REPEAT; MULTIDRUG RESISTANT TUBERCULOSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; ORGANISMS BY PHYLOGENETIC POSITION; POPULATION STRUCTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VARIABLE NUMBER OF TANDEM REPEAT;

ADULT; AGED; ANTITUBERCULAR AGENTS; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; GEORGIA (REPUBLIC); HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TUBERCULOSIS, MULTIDRUG-RESISTANT;

MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS COMPLEX;

EID: 77957821783     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: 1098660X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.00715-10     Document Type: Article

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