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The Utility of Space-Time Surveillance for Tuberculosis
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Tuberculosis (TB) has reemerged as a global health epidemic in recent years. Although several researchers have examined the use of space-time surveillance to detect TB clusters, they have not used genetic information to… read more… genetic information to verify that detected clusters are due to person-to-person transmission. Using genetic … we sought to determine whether detected clusters were due to recent transmission. Objective This paper describes … spacetime surveillance to detect genetic clusters of TB due to person-to-person spread. Document …