Molecular epidemiology and transmission dynamics of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in rural Africa

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The relative contribution of reactivated and recently acquired tuberculosis to the disease burden in developing countries is unknown, as are the settings within which most transmission occurs. In an attempt to answer these questions, we combined molecular techniques (restriction fragment length polymorphism analysis) and conventional epidemiology (risk factor analysis and contact tracing) to study 246 consecutive...

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