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Case Reports
. 2015 Jun;21(6):1082-4.
doi: 10.3201/eid2106.141903.

Fatal nosocomial MDR TB identified through routine genetic analysis and whole-genome sequencing

O Martin Williams, Thomas Abeel, Nicola Casali, Keira Cohen, Alex S Pym, Sarah B Mungall, Christopher A Desjardins, Anindo Banerjee, Francis Drobniewski, Ashlee M Earl, Graham S Cooke
Case Reports

Fatal nosocomial MDR TB identified through routine genetic analysis and whole-genome sequencing

O Martin Williams et al. Emerg Infect Dis. 2015 Jun.
No abstract available

Keywords: MDR-TB; antimicrobial resistance; health care workers; nosocomial infection; tuberculosis; tuberculosis and other mycobacteria; whole-genome sequencing.

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