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Solid Organ Transplant-Transmitted Tuberculosis Linked to a Community Outbreak - California, 2015.
MMWR. Morbidity and mortality weekly report - 4 Aug 2017
Kay Alexander, Barry Pennan M, Annambhotla Pallavi, Greene Carol, Cilnis Martin, Chin-Hong Peter, Arger Nicholas, McNitt Louise, Neidlinger Nikole, Shah Neha, Basavaraju Sridhar V, Kuehnert Matthew, Shaw Tambi
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In the spring of 2015, a local health department (LHD) in county A notified the California Department of Public Health (CDPH) about three adults with close ties to one another and a congregate community site who had received diagnoses of tuberculosis (TB) disease within a 3-month period. Subsequent review revealed matching TB genotypes indicating that the cases were likely part of a chain of TB transmission. Only...
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