Characterization of extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis cases from Valle del Cauca, Colombia

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 50, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 4185-4187

  Nieto, Luisa Maria ^a   Ferro, Beatriz E ^a   Villegas, Sonia L ^a   Mehaffy, Carolina ^b   Forero, Liliana ^c   Moreira, Cesar ^d   Rastogi, Nalin ^e   Van Soolingen, Dick ^f,g  

^a CENTRO INTERNACIONAL DE ENTRENAMIENTO E INVESTIGACIONES MÉDICAS CIDEIM   (Colombia)

^b Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^c Secretaría Departamental De Salud del Valle   (Colombia)

^d Secretaría de Salud Pública Municipal   (Colombia)

^e Institut Pasteur de Guadeloupe   (Guadeloupe)

^f NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (Netherlands)

^g RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINOGLYCOSIDE; ISONIAZID; RIFAMPICIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; COLOMBIA; EXTENSIVELY DRUG RESISTANT TUBERCULOSIS; GENE MUTATION; GENOTYPE; GYRA GENE; HUMAN; LETTER; MULTIDRUG RESISTANT TUBERCULOSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RRS GENE; VARIABLE NUMBER OF TANDEM REPEAT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COLOMBIA; EXTENSIVELY DRUG-RESISTANT TUBERCULOSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MOLECULAR TYPING; MUTANT PROTEINS; MUTATION, MISSENSE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84869210414     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: 1098660X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.01946-12     Document Type: Letter

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