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What's driving the decline in tuberculosis in Arkansas? A molecular epidemiologic analysis of tuberculosis trends in a rural, low-incidence population, 1997 2003.
American journal of epidemiology - 15 Sept 2007
France Anne Marie, Cave M Donald, Bates Joseph H, Foxman Betsy, Chu Toby, Yang Zhenhua
Abstract excerpt
Incident cases of tuberculosis may result from a recently acquired Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection or from the reactivation of a latent infection acquired in the remote past. The authors used molecular fingerprinting data to estimate the relative contributions of recent and remotely acquired infection to the yearly incidence of tuberculosis in Arkansas, a state with a largely rural population where the...
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