First Molecular Epidemiology Study of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in Kiribati

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Aleksic, Eman ^a   Merker, Matthias ^b   Cox, Helen ^a,c   Reiher, Bereka ^d   Sekawi, Zamberi ^e   Hearps, Anna C ^a   Ryan, Claire E ^a   Lee, Adele V ^a   Goursaud, Regis ^f   Malau, Clement ^a,g   O'Connor, Janet ^h   Cherry, Catherine L ^a,i   Niemann, Stefan ^b   Crowe, Suzanne M ^a,c,i  

^a BURNET INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^b RESEARCH CENTER BORSTEL   (Germany)

^c MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d Tungaru Central Hospital   (Kiribati)

^e UNIVERSITY PUTRA MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

^f Institut Pasteur de Nouvelle Caledonie Noumea   (New Caledonia)

^g UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^h SECRETARIAT OF THE PACIFIC COMMUNITY   (New Caledonia)

ⁱ ALFRED HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL LOAD; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CHILD; DIAGNOSTIC KIT; FEMALE; GENE CLUSTER; GENE DELETION; GENETIC LINE; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; KIRIBATI; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MICROBIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; SCHOOL CHILD; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; TUBERCULOSIS CONTROL; VARIABLE NUMBER OF TANDEM REPEAT;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA PRIMERS; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MICRONESIA; MINISATELLITE REPEATS; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TUBERCULOSIS, PULMONARY;

EID: 84873163328     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0055423     Document Type: Article

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