Tuberculosis Beijing strain outbreak in an Israeli Arab rural community linked to an incarcerated immigrant

A tuberculosis (TB) outbreak with six definite and four probable cases, caused by a Beijing strain isolate, occurred in an Arab rural community in north Israel. Using epidemiological investigation and strain genotyping, we identified the source case as an incarcerated immigrant. This outbreak illust...

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Veröffentlicht in:	The international journal of tuberculosis and lung disease 2014-12, Vol.18 (12), p.1502-1504
Hauptverfasser:	Bishara, H., Rorman, E., Mor, Z., Shechter-Amram, D., Weiler-Ravell, D.
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Adolescent Adult Antitubercular Agents - therapeutic use Arabs Bacterial diseases Bacteriological Techniques Biological and medical sciences Child, Preschool Contact Tracing Control Cross-Ethnic Disease Outbreaks Emigrants and Immigrants Family Female Friends Genotype Human bacterial diseases Humans Infant Infectious diseases Israel - epidemiology Male Medical sciences Mycobacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis - genetics Mycobacterium tuberculosis - pathogenicity Pneumology Prison Prisoners Public Health Rural Health Social Behavior Transmission Tuberculosis - diagnosis Tuberculosis - drug therapy Tuberculosis - ethnology Tuberculosis - microbiology Tuberculosis - transmission Tuberculosis and atypical mycobacterial infections Young Adult
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