TY - JOUR AU - Shen, Guomiao AU - Xue, Zhen AU - Shen, Xin AU - Sun, Bin AU - Gui, Xiaohong AU - Shen, Mei AU - Mei, Jian AU - Gao, Qian T1 - Recurrent Tuberculosis and Exogenous Reinfection, Shanghai, China T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal PY - 2006 VL - 12 IS - 11 SP - 1776 SN - 1080-6059 AB - Of 52 patients with recurrent tuberculosis in Shanghai, People's Republic of China, 32 (61.5%) had isolates in which genotype patterns of Mycobacterium tuberculosis differed between first and second episodes. This result indicates that exogenous reinfection is common in an area with a high incidence of tuberculosis. KW - Mycobacterium tuberculosis KW - tuberculosis KW - recurrence KW - molecular epidemiology KW - DNA fingerprinting KW - dispatch KW - China DO - 10.3201/eid1211.051207 UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/12/11/05-1207_article ER - End of Reference