Epidemiological links between tuberculosis cases identified twice as efficiently by whole genome sequencing than conventional molecular typing: A population-based study

BACKGROUND: Patients with Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates sharing identical DNA fingerprint patterns can be epidemiologically linked. However, municipal health services in the Netherlands are able to confirm an epidemiological link in only around 23% of the patients with isolates clustered by th...

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Autores principales: Jajou, Rana, de Neeling, Albert, van Hunen, Rianne, de Vries, Gerard, Schimmel, Henrieke, Mulder, Arnout, Anthony, Richard, van der Hoek, Wim, van Soolingen, Dick
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5884559/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29617456
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0195413

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