RESULTS FROM 5 YEARS OF NATIONWIDE DNA-FINGERPRINTING OF MYCOBACTERIUM-TUBERCULOSIS COMPLEX ISOLATES IN A COUNTRY WITH A LOW INCIDENCE OF MYCOBACTERIUM-TUBERCULOSIS INFECTION

Authors
BAUER J YANG ZH POULSEN S ANDERSEN AB
Citation
J. Bauer et al., RESULTS FROM 5 YEARS OF NATIONWIDE DNA-FINGERPRINTING OF MYCOBACTERIUM-TUBERCULOSIS COMPLEX ISOLATES IN A COUNTRY WITH A LOW INCIDENCE OF MYCOBACTERIUM-TUBERCULOSIS INFECTION, Journal of clinical microbiology, 36(1), 1998, pp. 305-308
Citations number
21
Categorie Soggetti
Microbiology
Journal title
Journal of clinical microbiology → ACNP
ISSN journal
00951137
Volume
36
Issue
1
Year of publication
1998
Pages
305 - 308
Database
ISI
SICI code
0095-1137(1998)36:1<305:RF5YON>2.0.ZU;2-Y
Abstract
Results from DNA fingerprint analyses of Mycobacterium tuberculosis co mplex isolates from tuberculosis (TB) patients diagnosed during 5 year s in Denmark are presented. The lack of success in eradicating TB in t his low-incidence country may be explained by an unrecognized high fre quency of active TB transmission (57%) among native Danes. Only two st rains of M. tuberculosis are responsible for 40% of all clustered case s of TB among Danes.