Clustering of Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains from foreign-born patients in Korea

Journal of Medical Microbiology

Volumn 60, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 1835-1840

  Jeon, Christie Y ^a,b   Kang, Heeyoon ^b   Kim, Mihye ^b   Murray, Megan B ^c,d   Kim, Heejin ^b   Cho, Eun Hee ^e   Park, Young Kil ^b  

^a Department of Medicine   (United States)

^b Korean Institute of Tuberculosis   (South Korea)

^c HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^d HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^e Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ISONIAZID; OFLOXACIN; RIFAMPICIN; STREPTOMYCIN;

ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; ASIA; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CHINESE; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; IMMIGRATION; MALE; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUTH KOREA;

ANTITUBERCULAR AGENTS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; ISONIAZID; MALE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; OFLOXACIN; REPUBLIC OF KOREA; RIFAMPIN; STREPTOMYCIN; TUBERCULOSIS, MULTIDRUG-RESISTANT;

EID: 81355163747     PISSN: 00222615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/jmm.0.034876-0     Document Type: Article

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