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Tuberculosis
New tuberculosis study findings reported from J. Love and co-authors
March 3rd, 2009
According to a study from London, the United Kingdom, "U.K.. To investigate the proportion of tuberculosis (TB) cases attributable to recent transmission and factors associated with clustering." "Demographic, clinical and microbiological surveillance data were collated from all new culture-confirmed cases in 1998. Using insertion sequence (IS) 6110 restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) typing, strains were classified as clustered (identical patterns) or unique and risk factors were determined using multivariable logistic regression. RFLP patterns were available for 2265 of 3713 (61%) cases: 1.808 had >= 5 IS6110 copies, while 372 cases were in 152 clusters,...
Source: TB & Outbreaks Week (2009-03-03)
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