Human Mycobacterium bovis infections in London and Southeast England

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 164-165

  Stone, Madeline J ^a   Brown, T J ^a   Drobniewski, F A ^a  

^a PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPING TECHNIQUE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MILK; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; PASTEURIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESERVOIR; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPOLIGOTYPING; TUBERCULOSIS; UNITED KINGDOM; URBAN RURAL DIFFERENCE; VARIABLE NUMBER OF TANDEM REPEAT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA, BACTERIAL; ENGLAND; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MINISATELLITE REPEATS; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MOLECULAR TYPING; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; TUBERCULOSIS; YOUNG ADULT;

ANIMALIA; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS;

EID: 84555188030     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: 1098660X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.05692-11     Document Type: Article

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