Migrant tuberculosis: The extent of transmission in a low burden country

BMC Infectious Diseases

Volumn 12, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Kamper Jørgensen, Zaza ^a   Andersen, Aase B ^b   Kok Jensen, Axel ^a   Kamper Jørgensen, Mads ^c   Bygbjerg, Ib C ^c,d   Andersen, Peter H ^a   Thomsen, Vibeke T ^a   Lillebaek, Troels ^a,d  

^a STATENS SERUM INSTITUT   (Denmark)

^b ODENSE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^d Rigshospitalet   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Denmark; Genotyping; IS6110 RFLP; Molecular epidemiology

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CHILD; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENMARK; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MIGRATION; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; PREVALENCE; SCHOOL CHILD; TUBERCULOSIS; CLASSIFICATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MOLECULAR TYPING; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; TRANSPOSON;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DENMARK; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, INFECTIOUS; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MOLECULAR TYPING; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; TRANSIENTS AND MIGRANTS; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 84860492944     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2334-12-60     Document Type: Article

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