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Added epidemiologic value to tuberculosis prevention and control of the investigation of clustered genotypes of Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates.
American journal of epidemiology - 15 Sept 2004
McNabb Scott J N, Kammerer J Steve, Hickey Andrew C, Braden Christopher R, Shang Nong, Rosenblum Lisa S, Navin Thomas R
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention established the US National Tuberculosis Genotyping and Surveillance Network to study the utility of genotyping Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates for prevention and control. From 1998 to 2000, four sites performed conventional contact investigations and epidemiologic investigations of cases with genotypically matched M. tuberculosis isolates, called cluster...
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