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Molecular epidemiology of tuberculosis in a sentinel surveillance population.
Emerging infectious diseases - 1 Nov 2002
Ellis Barbara A, Crawford Jack T, Braden Christopher R, McNabb Scott J N, Moore Marisa, Kammerer Steve
Abstract excerpt
We conducted a population-based study to assess demographic and risk-factor correlates for the most frequently occurring Mycobacterium tuberculosis genotypes from tuberculosis (TB) patients. The study included all incident, culture-positive TB patients from seven sentinel surveillance sites in the United States from 1996 to 2000. M. tuberculosis isolates were genotyped by IS6110-based restriction fragment length...
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