Article
Investigating extradomiciliary transmission of tuberculosis: An exploratory approach using social network patterns of TB cases and controls and the genotyping of Mycobacterium tuberculosis.
Tuberculosis (Edinburgh, Scotland) - 1 Dec 2020
Pinho Suani T R, Pereira Susan M, Miranda José G V, Duarte Tonya A, Nery Joilda S, de Oliveira Maeli G, Freitas M Yana G S, De Almeida Naila A, Moreira Fabio B, Gomes Raoni B C, Kerr Ligia, Kendall Carl, Gomes M Gabriela M, Bessa Theolis C B, Andrade Roberto F S, Barreto Mauricio L
Abstract excerpt
Extradomiciliary contacts have been overlooked in the study of TB transmission due to difficulties in identifying actual contacts in large populations. Complex network analysis provides a framework to model the structure of contacts, specially extradomiciliary ones. We conducted a study of incident sputum-positive TB cases and healthy controls occurring in a moderate TB burden city. Cases and controls were...
Topics
- Brazil
- Contact Tracing
- Genotype
- Humans
- Incidence
- Molecular Epidemiology
- Mycobacterium tuberculosis
- Retrospective Studies
- Social Networking