Recent transmission of drug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis in a prison population in southern Brazil
J. bras. pneumol; 42 (4), 2016
ABSTRACT We conducted a cross-sectional, retrospective study, characterized by classical and molecular epidemiology, involving M. tuberculosis isolates from a regional prison in southern Brazil. Between January of 2011 and August of 2014, 379 prisoners underwent sputum smear microscopy and culture; 53 (1...
Brasil/epidemiología, Análisis por Conglomerados, Estudios Transversales, Escolaridad, Genotipo, Biología Molecular, Mycobacterium tuberculosis/aislamiento & purificación, Prisiones/estadística & datos numéricos, Estudios Retrospectivos, Esputo/microbiología, Tuberculosis Resistente a Múltiples Medicamentos/epidemiología, Tuberculosis Resistente a Múltiples Medicamentos/transmisión