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Molecular epidemiology of tuberculosis after declining incidence, New York City, 2001-2003.
Epidemiology and infection - 1 May 2007
Driver C R, Kreiswirth B, Macaraig M, Clark C, Munsiff S S, Driscoll J, Zhao B
Abstract excerpt
Tuberculosis incidence in New York City (NYC) declined between 1992 and 2000 from 51.1 to 16.6 cases per 100,000 population. In January 2001, universal real-time genotyping of TB cases was implemented in NYC. Isolates from culture-confirmed tuberculosis cases from 2001 to 2003 were genotyped using IS6110 and spoligotype to describe the extent and factors associated with genotype clustering after declining TB...
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