Molecular Epidemiology of Tuberculosis in a Sentinel Surveillance Population

Molecular Epidemiology of Tuberculosis in a Sentinel Surveillance Population

We conducted a population-based study to assess demographic and risk-factor correlates for the most frequently occurring Mycobacterium tuberculosis genotypes from tuberculosis (TB) patients. The study included all incident, culture-positive TB patients from seven sentinel surveillance sites in the U...

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Main Authors: Barbara A. Ellis, Jack T. Crawford, Christopher R. Braden, Scott J. N. McNabb, Marisa Moore, Steve Kammerer
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2002-11-01
Series:Emerging Infectious Diseases
Subjects:
Sentinel surveillance
restriction fragment-length polymorphism
insertion sequence elements
risk factors
Mycobacterium tuberculosis
United States
Online Access:https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/8/11/02-0403_article

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