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Developing National Genotype-Independent Indicators for Recent Mycobacterium Tuberculosis Transmission Using Pediatric Cases-United States, 2011-2017.
Public health reports (Washington, D.C. : 1974) - 1 Jan 2000
Harrist Alexia V, McDaniel Clinton J, Wortham Jonathan M, Althomsons Sandy P
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INTRODUCTION: Pediatric tuberculosis (TB) cases are sentinel events for Mycobacterium tuberculosis transmission in communities because children, by definition, must have been infected relatively recently. However, these events are not consistently identified by genotype-dependent surveillance alerting methods because many pediatric TB cases are not culture-positive, a prerequisite for genotyping. METHODS: We...
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