TY - JOUR T1 - Multidrug resistance emerging in North London outbreak JF - Thorax JO - Thorax SP - 547 LP - 548 DO - 10.1136/thx.2005.052423 VL - 61 IS - 6 AU - H Maguire AU - M Ruddy AU - G Bothamley AU - B Patel AU - M Lipman AU - F Drobniewski AU - M Yates AU - T Brown Y1 - 2006/06/01 UR - http://thorax.bmj.com/content/61/6/547.2.abstract N2 - We write on behalf of the Outbreak Control Committee (OCC) investigating an outbreak of isoniazid monoresistant tuberculosis (TB) affecting over 260 cases (222 in London) to alert clinicians about recent transmission of a multidrug resistant (MDRTB) component with unusual characteristics.A unique genetic fingerprint on Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphism (RFLP) typing1 at the Health Protection Agency Mycobacterium Reference Unit (HPA MRU) has … ER -