DNA Fingerprinting of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Isolates from Epidemiologically Linked Case Pairs

DNA fingerprinting was used to evaluate epidemiologically linked case pairs found during routine tuberculosis (TB) contact investigations in seven sentinel sites from 1996 to 2000. Transmission was confirmed when the DNA fingerprints of source and secondary cases matched. Of 538 case pairs identifie...

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Autores principales: Bennett, Diane E., Onorato, Ida M., Ellis, Barbara A., Crawford, Jack T., Schable, Barbara, Byers, Robert, Kammerer, J. Steve, Braden, Christopher R.
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2002
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Dispatch
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2738550/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12453346
http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid0811.020420

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2738550/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12453346
http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid0811.020420

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