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Using genotyping and geospatial scanning to estimate recent mycobacterium tuberculosis transmission, United States.
Emerging infectious diseases - 1 Mar 2012
Moonan Patrick K, Ghosh Smita, Oeltmann John E, Kammerer J Steven, Cowan Lauren S, Navin Thomas R
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To determine the proportion of reported tuberculosis (TB) cases due to recent transmission in the United States, we conducted a cross-sectional study to examine culture-positive TB cases with complete genotype results (spoligotyping and 12-locus mycobacterial interspersed repetitive unit-variable-number tandem repeat typing) reported during January 2005-December 2009. Recently transmitted cases were defined as...
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