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SUBMITTER: Seto J
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5382749 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Seto Junji J Wada Takayuki T Suzuki Yu Y Ikeda Tatsuya T Mizuta Katsumi K Yamamoto Taro T Ahiko Tadayuki T
Emerging infectious diseases 20170301 3
In many countries with low to moderate tuberculosis (TB) incidence, cases have shifted to elderly persons. It is unclear, however, whether these cases are associated with recent Mycobacterium tuberculosis transmission or represent reactivation of past disease. During 2009-2015, we performed a population-based TB investigation in Yamagata Prefecture, Japan, using in-depth contact tracing and 24-loci variable-number tandem-repeat typing optimized for Beijing family M. tuberculosis strains. We anal ...[more]