Transmission of multidrug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis is reality in Switzerland

Publication

Transmission of multidrug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis is reality in Switzerland

Journal Paper/Review - Jun 25, 2012

Niederer-Loher Anita, Kahlert Christian, Barben Jürg, Deggim Vanessa, Zellweger Jean-Pierre

Units

Division of Infectious Diseases, Infection Prevention and Travel Medicine

Keywords

Tuberculosis, multidrug-resistance, transmission, contact-investigation

Citation

Niederer-Loher A, Kahlert C, Barben J, Deggim V, Zellweger J. Transmission of multidrug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis is reality in Switzerland. Journal of Pediatric Infectious Diseases 2012:159-160.

Type

Journal Paper/Review (Deutsch)

Journal

Journal of Pediatric Infectious Diseases 2012

Publication Date

Jun 25, 2012

Pages

159-160

Brief description/objective

We report the first documented patient-to-patient transmission of Multidrug resistant tuberculosis observed in Switzerland between two young, previously healthy patients from Tibet. They both lived in Switzerland for several years and did not originate from the same community. Resistance patterns and restriction fragment length polymorphism-analysis (RFLP-analysis) of both strains were identical.