Foreign-born status and geographic patterns of tuberculosis genotypes in Tarrant County, Texas

Professional Geographer

Volumn 59, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 478-491

  Oppong, Joseph R ^a   Denton, Curtis J ^a   Moonan, Patrick K ^b   Weis, Stephen E ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^c University of North Texas Health Science Center   (United States)

^d Department of Health and Human Services   (United States)

Author keywords

Disease clusters; Genotypes; Migration; Tuberculosis

Indexed keywords

DISEASE SPREAD; GENOTYPE; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; MIGRATION; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TUBERCULOSIS;

NORTH AMERICA; TARRANT COUNTY; TEXAS; UNITED STATES;

MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 35348948505     PISSN: 00330124     EISSN: 14679272     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9272.2007.00636.x     Document Type: Article

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