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A joint cross-border investigation of a cluster of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in Austria, Romania and Germany in 2014 using classic, genotyping and whole genome sequencing methods: lessons learnt

Molecular surveillance of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) using 24-loci MIRU-VNTR in the European Union suggests the occurrence of international transmission. In early 2014, Austria detected a molecular MDR-TB cluster of five isolates. Links to Romania and Germany prompted the three countr...

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Autores principales: Fiebig, Lena, Kohl, Thomas A, Popovici, Odette, Mühlenfeld, Margarita, Indra, Alexander, Homorodean, Daniela, Chiotan, Domnica, Richter, Elvira, Rüsch-Gerdes, Sabine, Schmidgruber, Beatrix, Beckert, Patrick, Hauer, Barbara, Niemann, Stefan, Allerberger, Franz, Haas, Walter
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5404487/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28106529
http://dx.doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2017.22.2.30439