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Transmission of multidrug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis is reality in Switzerland

Journal Paper/Review - Jun 25, 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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Journal Paper/Review (Deutsch)
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Journal of Pediatric Infectious Diseases 2012
Publication Date
Jun 25, 2012
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159-160
Brief description/objective

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.