A cluster of multidrug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis among patients arriving in Europe from the Horn of Africa: a molecular epidemiological study

The Lancet Infectious Diseases - Tập 18 - Trang 431-440 - 2018
Timothy M Walker1, Matthias Merker2, Astrid M Knoblauch3, Peter Helbling4, Otto D Schoch5, Marieke J van der Werf6, Katharina Kranzer7, Lena Fiebig8, Stefan Kröger8, Walter Haas8, Harald Hoffmann9, Alexander Indra10, Adrian Egli11,12, Daniela M Cirillo13, Jérôme Robert14, Thomas R Rogers15,16, Ramona Groenheit17, Anne T Mengshoel18, Vanessa Mathys19, Marjo Haanperä20,21
1Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, UK
2Molecular and Experimental Mycobacteriology, Research Center Borstel, Borstel, Germany
3Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
4Division of Communicable Diseases, Federal Office of Public Health, Bern, Switzerland
5University of Zurich and Tuberculosis Center of the Swiss Lung Association, Zurich, Switzerland
6European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, Solna, Sweden
7National Reference Center for Mycobacteria, Research Center Borstel, Borstel, Germany
8Respiratory Infections Unit, Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany
9SYNLAB Gauting and Institute of Microbiology and Laboratory Medicine, World Health Organization Supranational Reference Laboratory of Tuberculosis, Munich-Gauting, Germany
10Austrian Reference Laboratory for Mycobacteria, Austrian Agency for Health and Food Safety, Vienna, Austria
11Clinical Microbiology, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland
12Applied Microbiology Research, Department of Biomedicine, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
13Emerging Bacterial Pathogens Unit, Division of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, San Raffaele Scientific Institute, San Raffaele Hospital, Milan, Italy
14Assistance publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Centre National de Référence de Mycobactéries et de la Résistance des Mycobactéries aux Antituberculeux, Bactériologie-Hygiène, Hôpitaux Universitaires Pitié Salpêtrière and Sorbonne Universités, Centre d'Imagerie Médicale Italie-Paris, CR7, Institut national de la santé et de la recherche médicale U1135, Paris, France
15Irish Mycobacteria Reference Laboratory, St James's Hospital, Dublin, Ireland
16Department of Clinical Microbiology, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
17Department of Microbiology, Public Health Agency of Sweden, Solna, Sweden
18National Reference Laboratory for Mycobacteria, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Oslo, Norway
19Program Tuberculosis and Mycobacteria, Operational Direction Communicable and Infectious Diseases, Scientific Institute of Public Health (Site Ukkel), Ukkel, Belgium
20National Institute for Health and Welfare, Department of Infectious Diseases Surveillance and Control, Turku, Finland
21Department of Health Security, National Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland

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The Lancet Infectious Diseases

Tập 18

431-440

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