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Exogenous reinfection with multidrug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis in an immunocompetent patient
R W Shafer1, S P Singh, C Larkin
1Division of Infectious Diseases and Geographic Medicine, Stanford University, CA, USA.
Tubercle and Lung Disease : the Official Journal of the International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease
|December 1, 1995
Abstract:
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.