Mycobacterium tuberculosis Strains Potentially Involved in the TB Epidemic in Sweden a Century Ago

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2012, Pages

  Groenheit, Ramona ^a   Ghebremichael, Solomon ^a   Pennhag, Alexandra ^a   Jonsson, Jerker ^a   Hoffner, Sven ^a   Couvin, David ^b   Koivula, Tuija ^a,c   Rastogi, Nalin ^b   Källenius, Gunilla ^c  

^a SWEDISH INSTITUTE FOR INFECTIOUS DISEASE CONTROL   (Sweden)

^b Institut Pasteur de Guadeloupe   (Guadeloupe)

^c KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ETHAMBUTOL; ISONIAZID; PYRAZINAMIDE; RIFAMPICIN; STREPTOMYCIN;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGING; AMERICAN; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIDEMIC; ETHNIC GROUP; EUROPEAN; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; POPULATION RESEARCH; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SPOLIGOTYPING; SWEDEN; TUBERCULOSIS;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; EPIDEMICS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SWEDEN; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 84867296610     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0046848     Document Type: Article

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