1. Multistate outbreak of MDR TB identified by genotype cluster investigation.
- Author
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Barry PM, Gardner TJ, Funk E, Oren E, Field K, Shaw T, and Langer AJ
- Subjects
- Africa, Alaska epidemiology, California epidemiology, Cluster Analysis, Communicable Disease Control, Genotype, Humans, Time Factors, Transients and Migrants, Washington epidemiology, Antimalarials pharmacology, Drug Resistance, Multiple, Bacterial, Mycobacterium tuberculosis drug effects, Mycobacterium tuberculosis genetics, Tuberculosis, Multidrug-Resistant epidemiology, Tuberculosis, Multidrug-Resistant microbiology
- Abstract
In 2008, diagnosis and investigation of 2 multidrug-resistant tuberculosis cases with matching genotypes led to identification of an outbreak among foreign-born persons who performed short-term seafood production work in Alaska during 2006. Tuberculosis control programs should consider the possibility of domestic transmission even among foreign-born patients.
- Published
- 2012
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