Tuberculosis microepidemics among dispersed migrants, Birmingham, UK, 2004–2013

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 524-527

  Munang, Melinda L ^a   Browne, Catherine ^a   Khanom, Shaina ^b   Evans, Jason T ^b   Grace Smith, E ^b   Hawkey, Peter M ^b   Kunst, Heinke ^c   Welch, Steven B ^a   Dedicoat, Martin J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS BIRMINGHAM NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^b PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

^c QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIC; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL MONITORING; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HOMELESSNESS; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION RISK; INTERFERON GAMMA RELEASE ASSAY; INTERVIEW; LATENT TUBERCULOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIGRANT; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; SOCIAL NETWORK; TUBERCULOSIS; UNITED KINGDOM; CLASSIFICATION; GENE LOCUS; GENETICS; MIGRATION; RISK FACTOR; SENTINEL SURVEILLANCE; TRANSMISSION; VARIABLE NUMBER OF TANDEM REPEAT;

BACTERIAL DNA;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENETIC LOCI; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MINISATELLITE REPEATS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; RISK FACTORS; SENTINEL SURVEILLANCE; TRANSIENTS AND MIGRANTS; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 84923197402     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid2103.140209     Document Type: Article

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