Transmission of multidrug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis is reality in Switzerland

Publikation

Transmission of multidrug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis is reality in Switzerland

Wissenschaftlicher Artikel/Review - 25.06.2012

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

Bereiche

Infektiologie | Infektionsprävention | Reisemedizin

Schlagwörter (Tags)

Tuberculosis, multidrug-resistance, transmission, contact-investigation

Zitation

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.

Art

Wissenschaftlicher Artikel/Review (Deutsch)

Zeitschrift

Journal of Pediatric Infectious Diseases 2012

Veröffentlichungsdatum

25.06.2012

Seiten

159-160

Kurzbeschreibung/Zielsetzung

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.