Molecular Epidemiology of Tuberculosis in the Netherlands: A Nationwide Study from 1993 through 1997
To disclose risk factors for active tuberculosis transmission in the Netherlands, restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) patterns of 78% of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates, from the period 1993–1997, were analyzed. Of the respective 4266 cases, 46% were found in clusters of isolates with identical RFLPs, and 35% were attributed to active transmission. The clustering percentage increased strongly with the number of isolates; taking this into account, fewer cases were clustered than has been reported in other studies. Contact investigations in the five largest clusters of 23–47... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | TEXT |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 1999 |
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Oxford University Press
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Schlagwörter: | Major Articles |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-27196225 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | http://jid.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/180/3/726 |