High Rates of Clustering of Strains Causing Tuberculosis in Harare, Zimbabwe: a Molecular Epidemiological Study

We examined the pattern of tuberculosis (TB) transmission (i.e., reactivation versus recent transmission) and the impact of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection in Harare, Zimbabwe. Consecutive adult smear-positive pulmonary TB patients presenting to an urban hospital in Harare were enrolled...

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Hauptverfasser: Easterbrook, Philippa J., Gibson, Andrea, Murad, Shahed, Lamprecht, Dianie, Ives, Natalie, Ferguson, Alex, Lowe, Odette, Mason, Peter, Ndudzo, Angelika, Taziwa, Alfred, Makombe, Robert, Mbengeranwa, Lovemore, Sola, Christophe, Rostogi, Nalim, Drobniewski, Francis
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Sprache:Inglês
Veröffentlicht: American Society for Microbiology 2004
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Epidemiology
Online Zugang:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC522374/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15472306
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1128/JCM.42.10.4536-4544.2004
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