Clonal Expansion of Multidrug-Resistant and Extensively Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis, Japan

Clonal Expansion of Multidrug-Resistant and Extensively Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis, Japan

The emergence and spread of multidrug-resistant (MDR) and extensively drug-resistant (XDR) tuberculosis (TB) has raised public health concern about global control of TB. To estimate the transmission dynamics of MDR and XDR TB, we conducted a DNA fingerprinting analysis of 55 MDR/XDR Mycobacterium tu...

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Main Authors: Yoshiro Murase, Shinji Maeda, Hiroyuki Yamada, Akihiro Ohkado, Kinuyo Chikamatsu, Kazue Mizuno, Seiya Kato, Satoshi Mitarai
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2010-06-01
Series:Emerging Infectious Diseases
Subjects:
Mycobacterium tuberculosis
molecular epidemiology
MDR TB
XDR TB
RFLP
VNTR
Online Access:https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/16/6/09-1844_article

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