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. 2002 Nov;8(11):1249-51.
doi: 10.3201/eid0811.020245.

Cross-jurisdictional transmission of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in Maryland and Washington, D C, 1996-2000, linked to the homeless

Monica Lathan  1 , Leonard Ntaate Mukasa, Nancy Hooper, Jonathan Golub, Nancy Baruch, Donna Mulcahy, William Benjamin, Wendy A Cronin
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Cross-jurisdictional transmission of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in Maryland and Washington, D C, 1996-2000, linked to the homeless

Monica Lathan et al. Emerg Infect Dis. 2002 Nov.

Abstract

From 1996 to 2000, 23 Maryland and Washington, D.C., tuberculosis cases were identified in one six-band DNA cluster. Cases were clustered on the basis of their Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates. Medical record reviews and interviews were conducted to identify epidemiologic linkages. Eighteen (78%) of the 23 case-patients with identical restriction fragment length polymorphism patterns were linked to another member; half the patients were associated with a Washington, D.C., homeless shelter. Molecular epidemiology defined the extent of this large, cross-jurisdictional outbreak.

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Cluster A6 tuberculosis cases, Maryland and Washington, D.C.
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