Investigating transmission of Mycobacterium bovis in the United Kingdom in 2005 to 2008

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 49, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1943-1950

  Mandal, Sema ^a,f   Bradshaw, Louise ^a   Anderson, Laura F ^a   Brown, Tim ^a   Evans, Jason T ^a   Drobniewski, Francis ^a   Smith, Grace ^a   Magee, John G ^a   Barrett, Anne ^a   Blatchford, Oliver ^b   Laurenson, Ian F ^c   Seagar, Amie Louise ^c   Ruddy, Michael ^d   White, P Lewis ^d   Myers, Richard ^a   Hawkey, Peter ^a,e   Abubakar, Ibrahim ^a  

^a PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

^b HEALTH PROTECTION SCOTLAND   (United Kingdom)

^c Scottish Mycobacteria Reference Laboratory   (United Kingdom)

^d Welsh Centre for Mycobacteria   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^f University of Birmingham ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BOVINE TUBERCULOSIS; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DNA FINGERPRINTING; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEASONAL VARIATION; TREND STUDY; UNITED KINGDOM; VARIABLE NUMBER OF TANDEM REPEAT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DNA FINGERPRINTING; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MOLECULAR TYPING; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; TUBERCULOSIS; YOUNG ADULT;

BOS; BOVINAE; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS;

EID: 79955537879     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: 1098660X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.02299-10     Document Type: Article

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