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Molecular surveillance of multi- and extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis transmission in the European Union from 2003 to 2011.
Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin - 20 Mar 2014
De Beer J L, Kodmon C, van der Werf M J, van Ingen J, van Soolingen D
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The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) initiated a project on the molecular surveillance of multi- and extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-/XDR-TB) transmission in the European Union (EU) in the period from 2009 to 2011. In total, 2,092 variable number of tandem repeat (VNTR) patterns of MDR-/XDR-TB Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates were collected, originating from 24 different...
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