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Euro Surveill. Mycobacterium tuberculosis Beijing outbreak in a school in Marseille, France, 2012

Giuseppe

Emeritus
[Source: Eurosurveillance, full page: (LINK). Abstract, edited.]

Eurosurveillance, Volume 18, Issue 2, 10 January 2013

Rapid communications

Mycobacterium tuberculosis Beijing outbreak in a school in Marseille, France, 2012


F Golesi<SUP>1</SUP>, J Brignatz<SUP>2</SUP>, M Bellenfant<SUP>2</SUP>, D Raoult<SUP>1</SUP>, M Drancourt ()<SUP>1</SUP>
  1. Aix Marseille Universit?, URMITE, UMR63, CNRS 7278, IRD 198, INSERM 1095, 13005 Marseille, France
  2. Centre de Lutte Anti-Tuberculeuse du Conseil G?n?ral 13, Dispensaire d?Arenc ? Bougainville, Marseille, France
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Citation style for this article: Golesi F, Brignatz J, Bellenfant M, Raoult D, Drancourt M. Mycobacterium tuberculosis Beijing outbreak in a school in Marseille, France, 2012. Euro Surveill. 2013;18(2):pii=20354. Available online: http://www.eurosurveillance.org/ViewArticle.aspx?ArticleId=20354
Date of submission: 19 December 2012
<HR>Between January and September 2012, a teacher and four students at a technical college in Marseille, France, developed pulmonary tuberculosis. All Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates from these cases were identical and belonged to the Beijing strain family, multispacer sequence type 72, a rare genotype identified only once in our laboratory in the previous two years. This report highlights once more the potential for M. tuberculosis Beijing strains to cause outbreaks, this time in a school setting.
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