Identifying multidrug resistant tuberculosis transmission hotspots using routinely collected data

Tuberculosis

Volumn 92, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 273-279

  Manjourides, Justin ^a   Lin, Hsien Ho ^b,c   Shin, Sonya ^d   Jeffery, Caroline ^e   Contreras, Carmen ^f   Cruz, Janeth Santa ^f   Jave, Oswaldo ^g   Yagui, Martin ^h   Asencios, Luis ^h   Pagano, Marcello ⁱ   Cohen, Ted ^d,i  

^a NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c MENNONITE CHRISTIAN HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^d BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^e LIVERPOOL SCHOOL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^f Socios en Salud Sucursal   (Peru)

^g MINISTERIO DE SALUD   (Peru)

^h INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE SALUD   (Peru)

ⁱ HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Antibiotic resistance; Disease mapping; Surveillance

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; GEOGRAPHY; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTIDRUG RESISTANT TUBERCULOSIS; PERU; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; RISK;

ALGORITHMS; ANTITUBERCULAR AGENTS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; HUMANS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PERU; RETREATMENT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TUBERCULOSIS, MULTIDRUG-RESISTANT;

EID: 84862777983     PISSN: 14729792     EISSN: 1873281X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tube.2012.02.003     Document Type: Article

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