Discover Community Create You

Loading publication...

Noodle always counts identifier-free feature events for service operation. With your permission, Google Analytics can also estimate audience and engagement. Search text, publication identifiers, cookies, IP addresses and browser fingerprints are never included in Noodle's first-party event counters.

Privacy details

Article

Outbreak of tuberculosis in a closed setting: views on transmission based on results from molecular and conventional methods.

The Journal of hospital infection - 1 Jun 2016

Antusheva E, Mironuk O, Tarasova I, Eliseev P, Plusnina G, Ridell M, Larsson L-O, Mariyandyshev A

Abstract excerpt

BACKGROUND: This study describes an outbreak of tuberculosis (TB) in a nursing home for men with mental disorders where residency is lengthy or permanent. This type of setting can provide a model of transmission as contact with the rest of society is extremely limited. AIM: To determine if cases of TB, diagnosed around the same time and in the same place, are linked based on results using molecular and...

Read the complete abstract on PubMed

Topics

Share this publication in a Topic to start or enrich a Post.

Share to Cross Infection
Share to Disease Outbreaks

Methodology Data sources Editorial policy Privacy About Contact Helena Bioinformatics

Share to Disease Transmission, Infectious

Share to Minisatellite Repeats

Share to Molecular Typing

Share to Mycobacterium tuberculosis

Share to Spatio-Temporal Analysis

Share to Tuberculosis

Source

Identifiers

PMID: 27105749
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhin.2016.02.015

Provenance

PubMed metadata and Literature Corpus relationships. Corpus snapshot updated 7 Sept 2026. Manifest publication-graph-cohort-2026-09-07.1.

Source receipt: pubmed, retrieved 7 Sept 2026.

Related research

Semantic proximity does not establish scientific evidence.

Research trail→

Click a neighbor to travelStep 1 · 12 closest

Outbreak of tuberculosis in a closed setting: views on transmission based on results from molecular and conventional methods.PMID 27105749Read ↗

Notes from the field: outbreak of tuberculosis associated with a newly identified Mycobacterium tuberculosis genotype--New York City, 2010-2013.Semantic proximity Read ↗

Tuberculosis cases in a prison in the extreme south of Brazil.Semantic proximity Read ↗

Extensive nosocomial transmission of tuberculosis in a low-incidence country.Semantic proximity Read ↗

Regular Sputum Check-Up for Early Diagnosis of Tuberculosis after Exposure in Healthcare Facilities.Semantic proximity Read ↗

Notes from the field: use of genotyping to disprove a presumed outbreak of Mycobacterium tuberculosis - Los Angeles County, 2013-2014.Semantic proximity Read ↗

Tuberculosis outbreak investigations in the United States, 2002-2008.Semantic proximity Read ↗

Predictors of tuberculosis transmission in prisons: an analysis using conventional and molecular methodsSemantic proximity Read ↗

Notes from the field: tuberculosis cluster associated with homelessness--Duval County, Florida, 2004-2012.Semantic proximity Read ↗

An outbreak of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis among refugees in Austria, 2005-2006.Semantic proximity Read ↗

Tuberculosis in contacts need not indicate disease transmission.Semantic proximity Read ↗

A shelter-associated tuberculosis outbreak: a novel strain introduced through foreign-born populations.Semantic proximity Read ↗

Tuberculosis and homelessness in Montreal: a retrospective cohort study.Semantic proximity Read ↗

⌁Select a neighboring publication to make it the new centre.