Tuberculosis
New tuberculosis research from U.R. Dahle and co-researchers described
Published in TB and Outbreaks Week, January 8th, 2008
"Rationale Programs to prevent the incidence rate of tuberculosis (TB) from increasing in many low-incidence countries are challenged by international travel and immigration from high-burden countries. The current study aimed to determine the effect of such immigration on the genetic diversity of Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates in an entire nation's population during 1994-2005," scientists in Oslo, Norway report.
"A total of 3,131 patients were notified with TB during the 12-year period. Of these, 2,284 (73%) had TB verified by culture, and isolates from 2,173 (96%) of these were analyzed by IS6110 restriction fragment length polymorphism. Only 31% of the included...
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