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Laboratory investigation of a nosocomial transmission of tuberculosis at a district general hospital.

Journal of the Formosan Medical Association = Taiwan yi zhi - 1 Jul 2007

Huang Wei-Lun, Jou Ruwen, Yeh Pen-Fang, Huang Angela

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BACKGROUND/PURPOSE: Nosocomial outbreak of tuberculosis (TB) is rarely documented and the transmission is usually difficult to confirm because of the long incubation period of the mycobacterial infection. In this report, we demonstrated the use of molecular genotyping methods together with contac...

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PMID: 17660141
DOI: 10.1016/S0929-6646(07)60002-3
PMCID: PMC7135660

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