Drug Resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis of the Beijing Genotype Does Not Spread in Sweden

• Solomon Ghebremichael,

  Affiliations Department of Bacteriology, Swedish Institute for Infectious Disease Control, Solna, Sweden, Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

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• Ramona Groenheit,

  Affiliations Department of Bacteriology, Swedish Institute for Infectious Disease Control, Solna, Sweden, Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

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• Alexandra Pennhag,

  Affiliation Department of Bacteriology, Swedish Institute for Infectious Disease Control, Solna, Sweden

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• Tuija Koivula,

  Affiliations Center for Microbiological Preparedness, Swedish Institute for Infectious Disease Control, Solna, Sweden, Department of Clinical Science and Education, Karolinska Institutet, Södersjukhuset, Stockholm, Sweden

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• Emmi Andersson,

  Affiliation Unit of Clinical Microbiology, (F68), Karolinska University Hospital at Huddinge, Stockholm, Sweden

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• Judith Bruchfeld,

  Affiliation Infectious Diseases Unit, Department of Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Karolinska University Hospital, Solna, Sweden

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• Sven Hoffner,

  Affiliation Department of Bacteriology, Swedish Institute for Infectious Disease Control, Solna, Sweden

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• Victoria Romanus,

  Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, Swedish Institute for Infectious Disease Control, Solna, Sweden

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• Gunilla Källenius

  * E-mail: gunilla.kallenius@ki.se

  Affiliation Department of Clinical Science and Education, Karolinska Institutet, Södersjukhuset, Stockholm, Sweden

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