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Citywide Transmission of Multidrug-resistant Tuberculosis Under China’s Rapid Urbanization: A Retrospective Population-based Genomic Spatial Epidemiological Study
27 Aug 2019
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BACKGROUND: Population movement could extend multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) transmission and complicate its global prevalence. We sought to identify the high-risk populations and geographic sites of MDR-TB transmission in Shenzhen, the most common destination for internal migrants in China. METHODS: We performed a population-based, retrospective study in patients diagnosed with MDR-TB in Shenzhen...
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