Article
[Molecular epidemiology of tuberculosis among prisoners].
Epidemiologie, mikrobiologie, imunologie : casopis Spolecnosti pro epidemiologii a mikrobiologii Ceske lekarske spolecnosti J.E. Purkyne - 1 Feb 2003
Kubín M, Lillebaek T, Polanecký V, Kozáková B, Svecová Z, Papíková E, Vobora A
Abstract excerpt
The subject of the investigation is a group of 27 strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolated in 2000 from prisoners with the diagnosis of tuberculosis, 19 Czechs and 8 foreigners (mean age 41 and 35 years resp.). The molecular-epidemiological examination of these strains was made using the RFLP fingerprint technique (Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphism) with evidence of the insertive sequence IS6110 and...
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