| limited transmission of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis despite a high proportion of infectious cases in los angeles county, california. | preventing transmission of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis is critical because of treatment toxicity, cost, and the lack of effective therapy for latent infection. we attempted to determine the extent of transmission in los angeles county by comparing relatedness of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis cases using restriction fragment length polymorphism and by cross-matching contact information to the tuberculosis registry. strain typing was done on isolates of 102 pulmonary multidrug-resistant ca ... | 2002 | 11897649 |
| epidemiology of mycobacterium bovis disease in san diego county, 1994-2000. | local public health department. | 2003 | 12588020 |
| tracing the origins of mycobacterium bovis tuberculosis in humans in the usa to cattle in mexico using spoligotyping. | to compare genotypes of mycobacterium bovis strains from humans in southern california with genotypes of m. bovis strains in cattle in mexico and the usa to explore the possible origins of human infections. | 2010 | 20399697 |