HIV infection and geographically bound transmission of drug-resistant Tuberculosis, Argentina

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 18, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 1802-1810

  Ritacco, Viviana ^a   López, Beatriz ^a   Ambroggi, Marta ^b   Palmero, Domingo ^b   Salvadores, Bernardo ^c   Gravina, Elida ^d   Mazzeo, Eduardo ^a   Imaz, Susana ^e   Barrera, Lucía ^a  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE ENFERMEDADES INFECCIOSAS   (Argentina)

^b HOSPITAL F J MUÑIZ   (Argentina)

^c General Agudos 'Dr Diego Paroissien' ^*

^d Servicio de Emergencia   (Argentina)

^e Instituto Nacional de Enfermedades Respiratorias Dr Emilio Coni   (Argentina)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; CAPREOMYCIN; ETHAMBUTOL; ISONIAZID; KANAMYCIN; OFLOXACIN; PYRAZINAMIDE; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; RIFAMPICIN; STREPTOMYCIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARGENTINA; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DRUG RESISTANT TUBERCULOSIS; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; GENOTYPING TECHNIQUE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION RISK; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIXED INFECTION; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; RISK FACTOR;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARGENTINA; CHILD; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COINFECTION; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; TUBERCULOSIS, MULTIDRUG-RESISTANT; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84867858871     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1811.120126     Document Type: Article

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