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Epidemiological and genomic determinants of tuberculosis outbreaks in First Nations communities in Canada
BACKGROUND: In Canada, tuberculosis disproportionately affects foreign-born and First Nations populations. Within First Nations’ peoples, a high proportion of cases occur in association with outbreaks. Tuberculosis transmission in the context of outbreaks is thought to result from the convergence of...
Autores principales: | Doroshenko, Alexander, Pepperell, Caitlin S., Heffernan, Courtney, Egedahl, Mary Lou, Mortimer, Tatum D., Smith, Tracy M., Bussan, Hailey E., Tyrrell, Gregory J., Long, Richard |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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BioMed Central
2018
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6081810/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30086755 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12916-018-1112-9 |
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