Assessment of Mycobacterium tuberculosis transmission in Oxfordshire, UK, 2007–12, with whole pathogen genome sequences: an observational study

BackgroundPatients born outside the UK have contributed to a 20% rise in the UK's tuberculosis incidence since 2000, but their effect on domestic transmission is not known. Here we use whole-genome sequencing to investigate the epidemiology of tuberculosis transmission in an unselected populati...

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Hauptverfasser: Timothy M. Walker, Maeve K. Lalor, Agnieszka Broda, Luisa Saldana Ortega, Marcus Morgan, Lynne E. Parker, Sheila Churchill, Karen Bennett, Tanya Golubchik, Adam Giess, Carlos del Ojo Elías, Katie Jeffery, I.C.J.W. Bowler, Ian F. Laurenson, A. M. Barrett, Francis Drobniewski, Noel McCarthy, Laura Anderson, Ibrahim Abubakar, H Lucy Thomas, Philip Monk, E. Grace Smith, Derrick W. Crook, Tim Peto, Christopher P. Conlon
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Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: 2014
Online-Zugang:https://doi.org/10.1016/s2213-2600(14)70027-x
http://www.thelancet.com/article/S221326001470027X/pdf
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