Molecular epidemiology of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 528-531

  Gonzalo, Ximena ^a   Ambroggi, Marta ^a   Cordova, Ezequiel ^a   Brown, Tim ^b   Poggi, Susana ^a   Drobniewski, Francis ^b  

^a HOSPITAL F J MUÑIZ   (Argentina)

^b Clinical Sciences Research Centre   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TUBERCULOSTATIC AGENT;

ARGENTINA; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MUTATION; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CODON; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXTENSIVELY DRUG RESISTANT TUBERCULOSIS; GENE; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; INHA GENE; KATG GENE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MULTIDRUG RESISTANT TUBERCULOSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; VARIABLE NUMBER OF TANDEM REPEAT;

EID: 79952350738     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1703.100394     Document Type: Article

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