منابع مشابه
TUBERCULOSIS Outbreak of isoniazid resistant tuberculosis in north London
M C Ruddy, A P Davies, M D Yates, S Yates, S Balasegaram, Y Drabu, B Patel, S Lozewicz, S Sen, M Bahl, E James, M Lipman, G Duckworth, J M Watson, M Piper, F A Drobniewski, H Maguire . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...
متن کاملRifampicin Resistance in Tuberculosis Outbreak, London, England
Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates cultured from 6 patients associated with an isoniazid-resistant M. tuberculosis outbreak acquired rifampicin resistance. The rpoB gene sequence showed that resistance was associated with rare mutations in each isolate. Three isolates had a mutation outside the rifampicin resistance-determining region.
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There is estimated to be over a million new cases of paediatric tuberculosis (TB) globally every year. Children usually acquire TB infection from smear positive adult family contacts, a high proportion going on to develop disease. Childhood disease reflects recent infection, and therefore paediatric TB represents continuing transmission in the population. In England and Wales, TB notifications ...
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متن کاملThe molecular epidemiology of tuberculosis in inner London.
The study used DNA fingerprint typing (spoligotyping and Heminested-lnverse-PCR) of Mycobacterium tuberculosis from all culture-confirmed inner London patients over a 12-month period to describe transmission. The methodology was evaluated by comparison with standard IS6110 typing and by examining its ability to identify known household clusters of cases. Isolates sharing indistinguishable typin...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: BMJ
سال: 1943
ISSN: 0959-8138,1468-5833
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.2.4326.712