Transmission of multidrug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis is reality in Switzerland

Anita Niederer-Loher; Christian Kahlert; Jürg Barben; Vanessa Deggim; Jean-Pierre Zellweger

doi:10.3233/JPI-120370

Journal of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Inhaltsverzeichnis

J Pediatr Infect Dis 2012; 07(04): 159-160
DOI: 10.3233/JPI-120370

Case Report

Georg Thieme Verlag KG Stuttgart – New York

Transmission of multidrug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis is reality in Switzerland

Autor*innen

Anita Niederer-Loher

^aInfectious Diseases, Children's Hospital of Eastern Switzerland, St. Gallen, Switzerland

^cInfectious Diseases, Kantonsspital, St. Gallen, Switzerland
Christian Kahlert

^aInfectious Diseases, Children's Hospital of Eastern Switzerland, St. Gallen, Switzerland

^cInfectious Diseases, Kantonsspital, St. Gallen, Switzerland
Jürg Barben

^bPneumology, Children's Hospital of Eastern Switzerland, St. Gallen, Switzerland
Vanessa Deggim

^dInstitute of Medical Microbiology, University of Zürich, Zürich, Switzerla
Jean-Pierre Zellweger

^eLungenliga Schweiz, Switzerland

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Abstract

We report the first documented patient-to-patient transmission of Multidrug resistant tuberculosis observed in Switzerland between two young, previously healthy patients from Tibet. They both lived in Switzerland for several years and did not originate from the same community. Resistance patterns and restriction fragment length polymorphism-analysis (RFLP-analysis) of both strains were identical.

Keywords

Tuberculosis - multidrug-resistance - transmission - contact-investigation

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