Epidemic spread of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in China

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¹ Marie Bashir Institute for Infectious Diseases and Biosecurity (MBI) and Centre for Research Excellence in Tuberculosis, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2145, Australia; The Children's Hospital at Westmead, Sydney Medical School, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2145, Australia. Electronic address: ben.marais@health.nsw.gov.au.
² Marie Bashir Institute for Infectious Diseases and Biosecurity (MBI) and Centre for Research Excellence in Tuberculosis, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2145, Australia; Centre for Infectious Diseases and Microbiology-Public Health, Pathology West, Sydney, NSW, Australia.

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Ben J Marais et al. Lancet Infect Dis. 2017 Mar.

. 2017 Mar;17(3):238-239.

doi: 10.1016/S1473-3099(16)30526-6. Epub 2016 Dec 3.

¹ Marie Bashir Institute for Infectious Diseases and Biosecurity (MBI) and Centre for Research Excellence in Tuberculosis, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2145, Australia; The Children's Hospital at Westmead, Sydney Medical School, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2145, Australia. Electronic address: ben.marais@health.nsw.gov.au.
² Marie Bashir Institute for Infectious Diseases and Biosecurity (MBI) and Centre for Research Excellence in Tuberculosis, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2145, Australia; Centre for Infectious Diseases and Microbiology-Public Health, Pathology West, Sydney, NSW, Australia.

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Transmission of multidrug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis in Shanghai, China: a retrospective observational study using whole-genome sequencing and epidemiological investigation.
Yang C, Luo T, Shen X, Wu J, Gan M, Xu P, Wu Z, Lin S, Tian J, Liu Q, Yuan Z, Mei J, DeRiemer K, Gao Q. Yang C, et al. Lancet Infect Dis. 2017 Mar;17(3):275-284. doi: 10.1016/S1473-3099(16)30418-2. Epub 2016 Dec 3. Lancet Infect Dis. 2017. PMID: 27919643 Free PMC article.