Baseline demographic characteristics of the 48 MDR-TB outbreak-associated patients according to the IS6110-RFLP profile of their corresponding isolate.
IS6110 DNA fingerprinting was used to characterize an outbreak of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in 21 individuals (17 males and 4 females) living in or roaming among four distantly separated areas
Beijing strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (lineage 2) have been associated with drug-resistance and transmission of tuberculosis worldwide. Most of the Beijing strains identified in the Colombian