title: Mycobacterium tuberculosis Beijing outbreak in a school in Marseille, France, 2012.
abstract: Between January and September 2012, a teacher and four students at a technical college in Marseille, France, developed pulmonary tuberculosis. All Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates from these cases were identical and belonged to the Beijing strain family, multispacer sequence type 72, a rare genotype identified only once in our laboratory in the previous two years. This report highlights once more the potential for M. tuberculosis Beijing strains to cause outbreaks, this time in a school setting.
authors: Aix Marseille Université, URMITE, UMR63, CNRS 7278, IRD 198, INSERM 1095, 13005 Marseille, France.
authors: F
authors: F
authors: Golesi
authors: J
authors: J
authors: Brignatz
authors: M
authors: M
authors: Bellenfant
authors: D
authors: D
authors: Raoult
authors: M
authors: M
authors: Drancourt
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000904:Antibiotics, Antitubercular / Q000627:therapeutic use; D016358:Contact Tracing; D004196:Disease Outbreaks; D004359:Drug Therapy, Combination; D005602:France / Q000453:epidemiology; D005838:Genotype; D006801:Humans; D008826:Microbial Sensitivity Tests; D058885:Multilocus Sequence Typing; D009169:Mycobacterium tuberculosis / Q000187:drug effects / Q000235:genetics* / Q000302:isolation & purification; D012150:Polymorphism, Restriction Fragment Length; D060888:Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction; D012574:Schools; D013183:Sputum / Q000382:microbiology; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D014397:Tuberculosis, Pulmonary / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000235:genetics* / Q000382:microbiology
chemical_list: D000904:Antibiotics, Antitubercular