"Epidemiologic Interpretation of M. tuberculosis (M.tb) DNA Fingerprints."

According to an abstract submitted by the authors to the Conference on Global Lung Health and the 1995 Annual Meeting of the IUATLD/UICTMR, held September 9-12, 1995, in Paris, France, "Investigators have suggested that M.tb isolates with similar DNA fingerprints represent recent transmission of tuberculosis (TB) between patients. In our study, DNA fingerprinting and conventional epidemiology techniques were used to identify connections, recent and remote, among clustered patients. M.tb isolates obtained from AR residents diagnosed in 1992-93 were analyzed by DNA fingerprinting. For clustered patients, health department and laboratory records were reviewed and interviews conducted to...

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