Multistate outbreak of MDR TB identified by genotype cluster investigation

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 113-116

  Barry, Pennan M ^a   Gardner, Tracie J ^b,c   Funk, Elizabeth ^b   Oren, Eyal ^d   Field, Kimberly ^e   Shaw, Tambi ^a   Langer, Adam J ^c  

^a CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b Alaska Division of Public Health   (United States)

^c CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^d PUBLIC HEALTH SEATTLE AND KING COUNTY   (United States)

^e WASHINGTON STATE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ETHIONAMIDE; ISONIAZID; RIFAMPICIN; STREPTOMYCIN;

ARTICLE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIC; GENE CLUSTER; GENE LOCUS; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; MIGRANT WORKER; MULTIDRUG RESISTANT TUBERCULOSIS; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; TUBERCULOSIS CONTROL; VARIABLE NUMBER OF TANDEM REPEAT; WORK SCHEDULE;

AFRICA; ALASKA; ANTIMALARIALS; CALIFORNIA; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; TIME FACTORS; TRANSIENTS AND MIGRANTS; TUBERCULOSIS, MULTIDRUG-RESISTANT; WASHINGTON;

EID: 84856577389     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1801.110671     Document Type: Article

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