Assessment of Mycobacterium tuberculosis transmission in Oxfordshire, UK, 2007-12, with whole pathogen genome sequences: An observational study

The Lancet Respiratory Medicine

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 285-292

  Walker, Timothy M ^a,b   Lalor, Maeve K ^c   Broda, Agnieszka ^c,i   Ortega, Luisa Saldana ^c   Morgan, Marcus ^b   Parker, Lynne ^d   Churchill, Sheila ^d   Bennett, Karen ^d   Golubchik, Tanya ^a   Giess, Adam P ^a   Del Ojo Elias, Carlos ^a   Jeffery, Katie J ^b   Bowler, Ian C J W ^b   Laurenson, Ian F ^e   Barrett, Anne ^f   Drobniewski, Francis ^c,i   McCarthy, Noel D ^c   Anderson, Laura F ^c   Abubakar, Ibrahim ^c,h   Thomas, H Lucy ^c   Monk, Philip ^c   Smith, E Grace ^c   Walker, A Sarah ^a,g   Crook, Derrick W ^a,b,g   Peto, Tim E A ^a,b,g   Conlon, Christopher P ^a,b   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b OXFORD UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^c PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

^d OXFORD HEALTH NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^e ROYAL INFIRMARY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^f FREEMAN HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^g JOHN RADCLIFFE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^h UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

ⁱ IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ALCOHOL ABUSE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CHILD; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONTACT EXAMINATION; DRUG MISUSE; ENDEMIC DISEASE; GENE SEQUENCE; HOMELESSNESS; HUMAN; IMMIGRANT; INCIDENCE; LUNG DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRISONER; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; TUBERCULOSIS; UNITED KINGDOM; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ETHNOLOGY; GENETICS; INFANT; MIDDLE AGED; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RISK FACTOR; TRANSMISSION; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ENGLAND; GENOME, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; RISK FACTORS; TUBERCULOSIS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84897966231     PISSN: 22132600     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S2213-2600(14)70027-X     Document Type: Article

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