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Transmission of multidrug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis is reality in Switzerland

Wissenschaftlicher Artikel/Review - 25.06.2012

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Tuberculosis, multidrug-resistance, transmission, contact-investigation
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Niederer-Loher A, Kahlert C, Barben J, Deggim V, Zellweger J. Transmission of multidrug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis is reality in Switzerland. Journal of Pediatric Infectious Diseases 2012:159-160.
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Wissenschaftlicher Artikel/Review (Deutsch)
Zeitschrift
Journal of Pediatric Infectious Diseases 2012
Veröffentlichungsdatum
25.06.2012
Seiten
159-160
Kurzbeschreibung/Zielsetzung

We report the first documented patient-to-patient transmission of Multidrug resistant tuberculosis observed in Switzerland between two young, previously healthy patients from Tibet. They both lived in Switzerland for several years and did not originate from the same community. Resistance patterns and restriction fragment length polymorphism-analysis (RFLP-analysis) of both strains were identical.