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High proportion of tuberculosis transmission among social contacts in rural China: a 12-year prospective population-based genomic epidemiological study
2022-04-20
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<h4>Summary</h4> <h4>Background</h4> Tuberculosis (TB) is more prevalent in rural than urban areas in China, and delineating TB transmission patterns in rural populations could improve TB control. <h4>Methods</h4> We conducted a prospective population-based study of culture-positive pulmonary TB patients diagnosed between July 1, 2009 and December 31, 2020 in two rural counties in China. Genomic clusters were defi...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 6c8878da-1b4c-5762-b980-e192b506d10c
- DOI
- 10.1101/2022.04.18.22273772
