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SUBMITTER: Auld SC
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6195447 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Auld Sara C SC Shah N Sarita NS Mathema Barun B Brown Tyler S TS Ismail Nazir N Omar Shaheed Vally SV Brust James C M JCM Nelson Kristin N KN Allana Salim S Campbell Angela A Mlisana Koleka K Moodley Pravi P Gandhi Neel R NR
The European respiratory journal 20181018 4
Despite evidence that transmission is driving an extensively drug-resistant TB (XDR-TB) epidemic, our understanding of where and between whom transmission occurs is limited. We sought to determine whether there was genomic evidence of transmission between individuals without an epidemiologic connection.We conducted a prospective study of XDR-TB patients in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, during the 2011-2014 period. We collected sociodemographic and clinical data, and identified epidemiologic links ...[more]