%0 Journal Article
%T Tuberculosis Control and Role of Molecular Epidemiology Studies in Iran: A Systematic Review
%A Abdolhassan Kazemi
%A Behroz Mahdavi Poor
%A Hossein Samadi Kafil
%A Jalil Rashedi
%A Mahya Pourostadi
%A Mohammad Asgharzadeh
%J Archive of "Tanaffos".
%D 2017
%X Today because of immigration, HIV pandemic and spread of drug resistant tuberculosis, mortality caused by tuberculosis (TB) has increased. To control the disease it is essential to identify the sources of the infection and patterns of transmission. This becomes possible through using molecular epidemiology methods
%K Molecular epidemiology
%K Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphisms (RFLP)
%K Tuberculosis
%K Transmission
%K Control
%K Iran
%U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5960223/