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Tuberculosis genotyping information management system: enhancing tuberculosis surveillance in the United States.
Infection, genetics and evolution : journal of molecular epidemiology and evolutionary genetics in infectious diseases - 1 Jun 2012
Ghosh Smita, Moonan Patrick K, Cowan Lauren, Grant Juliana, Kammerer Steve, Navin Thomas R
Abstract excerpt
Molecular characterization of Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex isolates (genotyping) can be used by public health programs to more readily identify tuberculosis (TB) transmission. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Tuberculosis Genotyping Service has offered M. tuberculosis genotyping for every culture-confirmed case in the United States since 2004. The TB Genotyping Information...
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