Mixed-strain Mycobacterium tuberculosis infections among patients dying in a Hospital in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 385-388

  Cohen, Ted ^a,b   Wilson, Douglas ^c   Wallengren, Kristina ^b   Samuel, Elizabeth Y ^d   Murray, Megan ^a,b,e  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

^d INKOSI ALBERT LUTHULI CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (South Africa)

^e MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BIOPSY TECHNIQUE; CLONE; DYING; FEMALE; GENE LOCUS; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; INTERSPERSED REPEAT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUTH AFRICA; TUBERCULOSIS; VARIABLE NUMBER OF TANDEM REPEAT;

ADULT; DNA, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; MALE; MOLECULAR TYPING; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; SOUTH AFRICA; TUBERCULOSIS;

MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 78650889869     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: 1098660X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.01378-10     Document Type: Article

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