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Long-term refined genomic analysis of tuberculosis clusters to distinguish between ongoing transmission, reactivations or diagnostic delays, Almería, Spain, 2003 to 2024.
Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin - 1 Mar 2026
Rodríguez-Grande Cristina, Vallejo-Godoy Silvia, Martínez-Lirola Miguel, Saleeb Sheri M, Herranz Marta, Buenestado-Serrano Sergio, Marcos-Abellán Andrea, Barroso-García Pilar, Rueda Nieto Senay, Escabias-Machuca Francisca, Esteban-García Ana Belén, Cabezas Fernández María Teresa, Garrido-Cárdenas José Antonio, Muñoz Patricia, Pérez-Lago Laura, García de Viedma Darío
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BACKGROUNDIn tuberculosis (TB) surveillance, genomics is mainly used to identify TB patient clusters; growing clusters are commonly attributed to ongoing transmission events.AIMThis study's objective was to explore other factors, in addition to ongoing transmission, contributing to cluster expansion.METHODSThe study population included all 1,886 culture-positive TB cases diagnosed within the whole Almería...
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