Contact Investigation and Genotyping to Identify Tuberculosis Transmission to Children

BACKGROUND:Tuberculosis (TB) in young children is an indicator of ongoing community transmission. We examined contact investigations related to pediatric TB, yield for source case identifications and genotypes for relevant Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates in a low-incidence setting. METHODS:We re...

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Veröffentlicht in:	The Pediatric infectious disease journal 2006-11, Vol.25 (11), p.1037-1043
Hauptverfasser:	Yeo, Ivan K. T, Tannenbaum, Terry, Scott, Allison N, Kozak, Robert, Behr, Marcel A, Thibert, Louise, Schwartzman, Kevin
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Adolescent Adult Aged Bacterial diseases Bacterial Typing Techniques Biological and medical sciences Child Child, Preschool Contact Tracing DNA Transposable Elements Female Genotype Human bacterial diseases Humans Infant Infectious diseases Male Medical sciences Mycobacterium tuberculosis - classification Mycobacterium tuberculosis - genetics Mycobacterium tuberculosis - isolation & purification Oligonucleotides - analysis Polymorphism, Restriction Fragment Length Tuberculosis - epidemiology Tuberculosis - microbiology Tuberculosis - transmission Tuberculosis and atypical mycobacterial infections
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Zusammenfassung:	BACKGROUND:Tuberculosis (TB) in young children is an indicator of ongoing community transmission. We examined contact investigations related to pediatric TB, yield for source case identifications and genotypes for relevant Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates in a low-incidence setting. METHODS:We reviewed public health data for all patients with TB aged
ISSN:	0891-3668 1532-0987
DOI:	10.1097/01.inf.0000241101.12510.3c