Tuberculosis control and molecular epidemiology in a South African gold-mining community

Gold miners have very high rates of tuberculosis. The contribution of infections imported into mining communities versus transmission within them is not known and has implications for control strategies. We did a prospective, population-based molecular and conventional epidemiological study of pulmo...

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Veröffentlicht in:	The Lancet (British edition) 2000-09, Vol.356 (9235), p.1066-1071
Hauptverfasser:	Godfrey-Faussett, P, Sonnenberg, P, Shearer, SC, Bruce, MC, Mee, C, Morris, L, Murray, J
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Adult Aged Analysis. Health state Biological and medical sciences Data Interpretation, Statistical Disease transmission DNA Fingerprinting DNA, Bacterial - genetics Drug Resistance, Microbial - genetics Epidemiology General aspects Gold Gold mines & mining Humans Male Medical research Medical sciences Middle Aged Mining Molecular Epidemiology Mycobacterium tuberculosis - genetics Mycobacterium tuberculosis - isolation & purification Occupational Diseases - epidemiology Occupational Diseases - microbiology Occupational Diseases - prevention & control Prospective Studies Public health. Hygiene Public health. Hygiene-occupational medicine Risk Factors Rural areas Silica South Africa - epidemiology Tropical medicine Tuberculosis Tuberculosis, Multidrug-Resistant - microbiology Tuberculosis, Pulmonary - epidemiology Tuberculosis, Pulmonary - microbiology Tuberculosis, Pulmonary - prevention & control
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