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Transmission of specific genotype streptomycin resistant strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in the Tokyo Metropolitan Area in Japan.
BMC infectious diseases - 26 Aug 2009
Ohkado Akihiro, Murase Yoshiro, Mori Masaaki, Hasegawa Naoki, Otsuka Goro, Nagamine Michiko, Maeda Hideo, Uchimura Kazuhiro, Ohmori Masako, Yamada Norio, Maeda Shinji, Kato Seiya, Mori Toru, Ishikawa Nobukatsu
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: From 2003 through to 2004, an outbreak of tuberculosis was identified at a university campus in Yokohama City, located in the southern part of the Tokyo Metropolitan Area (TMA). All Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M. tuberculosis) strains detected with regards to this outbreak turned out to be Streptomycin resistant with matched patterns of 14 IS6110 bands of Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphism...
Topics
- Adult
- Aged
- Antitubercular Agents
- Bacterial Typing Techniques
- DNA Fingerprinting
- DNA, Bacterial
- Disease Outbreaks
- Drug Resistance, Bacterial
- Female
- Genotype