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Recent Transmission of Tuberculosis - United States, 2011-2014.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2016
Yuen Courtney M, Kammerer J Steve, Marks Kala, Navin Thomas R, France Anne Marie
Abstract excerpt
Tuberculosis is an infectious disease that may result from recent transmission or from an infection acquired many years in the past; there is no diagnostic test to distinguish the two causes. Cases resulting from recent transmission are particularly concerning from a public health standpoint. To describe recent tuberculosis transmission in the United States, we used a field-validated plausible source-case method...
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