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Transmission of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis

1 Aug 2000

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AIM: To compare the Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates of adult index cases with multidrug-resistant (MDR) tuberculosis to the isolates obtained from their child contacts. PATIENTS AND METHODS: A 4-year prospective study in the Western Cape Province of South Africa. We evaluated 149 child contacts of 80 adult MDR pulmonary tuberculosis cases. This report includes those cases where a culture for M. tuberculosis...

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PMID: 10959735
DOI: 10.1097/00006454-200008000-00005

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