Exogenous reinfection with multidrug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis in an immunocompetent patient.
We used restriction-fragment-length-polymorphism (RFLP) DNA fingerprinting to document exogenous reinfection with a multidrug-resistant strain of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in an immunocompetent patient. Molecular epidemiologic studies using RFLP analysis may elucidate the epidemiology of exogenous reinfection with M. tuberculosis.
Shafer
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Division of Infectious Diseases and Geographic Medicine, Stanford University, CA, USA.
Singh
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Larkin
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Small
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D000328:Adult; D016172:DNA Fingerprinting; D004269:DNA, Bacterial / Q000032:analysis; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007121:Immunocompetence; D009169:Mycobacterium tuberculosis / Q000737:chemistry; D012150:Polymorphism, Restriction Fragment Length; D012008:Recurrence; D018088:Tuberculosis, Multidrug-Resistant / Q000276:immunology / Q000382:microbiology
D004269:DNA, Bacterial