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Risk for Prison-to-Community Tuberculosis Transmission, Thailand, 2017–2020
23 Feb 2023
Abstract excerpt
To determine contributions of previously incarcerated persons to tuberculosis (TB) transmission in the community, we performed a healthcare facility-based cohort study of TB patients in Thailand during 2017-2020. We used whole-genome sequencing of Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates from patients to identify genotypic clusters and assess the association between previous incarceration and TB transmission in the...
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