Article
Molecular epidemiology of tuberculosis in Kaohsiung City located at southern Taiwan, 2000-2008.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2015
Chen Yih-Yuan, Chang Jia-Ru, Kuo Shu-Chen, Tseng Fan-Chen, Huang Wei-Chen, Huang Tsi-Shu, Chen Yao-Shen, Chiueh Tzong-Shi, Sun Jun-Ren, Su Ih-Jen, Dou Horng-Yunn
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: We present the first comprehensive analysis of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) isolates circulating in southern Taiwan. In this 9-year population-based study, the TB situation in the Kaohsiung region was characterized by genotypic analysis of 421 MTB isolates. METHODS: All 421 isolates of MTB were analyzed by spoligotyping and MIRU-VNTR typing. Drug-resistance patterns were also analyzed. RESULTS:...
Topics
- Anti-Bacterial Agents
- Bacterial Typing Techniques
- Drug Resistance, Bacterial
- Genome, Bacterial
- Humans
- Molecular Epidemiology
- Mycobacterium tuberculosis
- Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide
- Retrospective Studies
- Streptomycin
- Taiwan
- Tuberculosis