Multidrug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis, southwestern Colombia

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 17, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1259-1262

  Ferro, Beatriz E ^a   Nieto, Luisa Maria ^a   Rozo, Juan C ^a   Forero, Liliana ^b   van Soolingen, Dick ^c,d  

^a CENTRO INTERNACIONAL DE ENTRENAMIENTO E INVESTIGACIONES MÉDICAS CIDEIM   (Colombia)

^b Secretaría de Salud Del Valle Del Cauca   (Colombia)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (Netherlands)

^d RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CHILD; COLOMBIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA EXTRACTION; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; MALE; MULTIDRUG RESISTANT TUBERCULOSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; RESIDENTIAL AREA; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPOLIGOTYPING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTITUBERCULAR AGENTS; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; CHILD; COLOMBIA; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; ISONIAZID; MALE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PUBLIC HEALTH; RIFAMPIN; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS; TUBERCULOSIS, MULTIDRUG-RESISTANT;

EID: 79959884947     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1707.101797     Document Type: Article

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