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Using Routinely Reported Tuberculosis Genotyping and Surveillance Data to Predict Tuberculosis Outbreaks

We combined routinely reported tuberculosis (TB) patient characteristics with genotyping data and measures of geospatial concentration to predict which small clusters (i.e., consisting of only 3 TB patients) in the United States were most likely to become outbreaks of at least 6 TB cases. Of 146 clu...

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Autores principales: Althomsons, Sandy P., Kammerer, J. Steven, Shang, Nong, Navin, Thomas R.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3492443/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23144956
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0048754