Evaluation of Non-HIV-Related, Drug-Sensitive Cluster Outbreaks of Tuberculosis with PCR-based DNA Fingerprinting

JM FitzGerald; WA Black; D Kunimoto

doi:10.1155/1996/723501

Canadian Respiratory Journal (Jan 1996)

Evaluation of Non-HIV-Related, Drug-Sensitive Cluster Outbreaks of Tuberculosis with PCR-based DNA Fingerprinting

JM FitzGerald,
WA Black,
D Kunimoto

Affiliations

JM FitzGerald: Respiratory Division, Department of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
WA Black: Provincial TB Laboratory, BC Centre for Disease Control, Ministry of Health, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
D Kunimoto: Department of Medical Microbiology and Infectious Disease, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1155/1996/723501
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 3, no. 5
pp. 317 – 321

Abstract

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OBJECTIVES: To characterize two cluster outbreaks of tuberculosis by DNA fingerprinting and to evaluate the possibility of their association with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection and multiple drug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis.

Published in Canadian Respiratory Journal

ISSN: 1198-2241 (Print); 1916-7245 (Online)
Publisher: Hindawi Limited
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Medicine: Internal medicine: Specialties of internal medicine: Diseases of the respiratory system
Website: https://www.hindawi.com/journals/crj/

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