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Mycobacterium tuberculosis Beijing outbreak in a school in Marseille, France, 2012.
Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin - 10 Jan 2013
Golesi F, Brignatz J, Bellenfant M, Raoult D, Drancourt M
Abstract excerpt
Between January and September 2012, a teacher and four students at a technical college in Marseille, France, developed pulmonary tuberculosis. All Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates from these cases were identical and belonged to the Beijing strain family, multispacer sequence type 72, a rare genotype identified only once in our laboratory in the previous two years. This report highlights once more the potential...
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