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Incidence of Beijing genotype of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in Elche, Spain: a 13-year surveillance study.
Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin - 1 May 2007
Garcia-Pachon E, Escribano I, Rodriguez J C, Ruiz M, Ramos J M, Navarro J F, Royo G
Abstract excerpt
Strains of the Beijing genotype family of Mycobacterium tuberculosis have been associated with outbreaks and multidrug resistance. We performed a retrospective thirteen-year surveillance study (1993 - 2005) on the occurrence of this strain in Elche, Spain. Only one of the available isolates from 332 cases of tuberculosis tested positive for Beijing strain. The case, detected in 2001, was that of an immigrant...
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