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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

Anita Niederer-Loher
a   Infectious Diseases, Children's Hospital of Eastern Switzerland, St. Gallen, Switzerland
c   Infectious Diseases, Kantonsspital, St. Gallen, Switzerland
,
Christian Kahlert
a   Infectious Diseases, Children's Hospital of Eastern Switzerland, St. Gallen, Switzerland
c   Infectious Diseases, Kantonsspital, St. Gallen, Switzerland
,
Jürg Barben
b   Pneumology, Children's Hospital of Eastern Switzerland, St. Gallen, Switzerland
,
Vanessa Deggim
d   Institute of Medical Microbiology, University of Zürich, Zürich, Switzerla
,
Jean-Pierre Zellweger
e   Lungenliga Schweiz, Switzerland
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08 February 2012

25 June 2012

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28 July 2015 (online)

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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