Impact of immigration on tuberculosis epidemiology in a low-incidence country

Clinical Microbiology and Infection

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 881-887

  Svensson, E ^a   Millet, J ^b   Lindqvist, A ^c   Olsson, M ^c   Ridell, M ^a   Rastogi, N ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^b Institut Pasteur de Guadeloupe   (Guadeloupe)

^c Department of Communicable Disease Control and Prevention ^*  (Sweden)

Author keywords

Bacterial DNA; Extrapulmonary tuberculosis; Impact of immigration; Low incidence country; Molecular epidemiology; Mycobacterium tuberculosis; SpolDB4

Indexed keywords

ETHAMBUTOL; ISONIAZID; RIFAMPICIN; STREPTOMYCIN;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; DEMOGRAPHY; EXTRAPULMONARY TUBERCULOSIS; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; IMMIGRATION; INCIDENCE; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOLECULAR TYPING; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SWEDEN; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TUBERCULOSIS CONTROL;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 79959318255     PISSN: 1198743X     EISSN: 14690691     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-0691.2010.03358.x     Document Type: Article

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