ReviewEmerging infectious diseases2011
Tuberculosis outbreak investigations in the United States, 2002-2008.
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33 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
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- An overview of tuberculosis outbreaks reported in the years 2011-2020.BMC infectious diseases · 2023Review
- Using Machine Learning Techniques and National Tuberculosis Surveillance Data to Predict Excess Growth in Genotyped Tuberculosis Clusters.American journal of epidemiology · 2022Article
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- Outbreak ofThe American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene · 2020Article
- Over the limit: tuberculosis and excessive alcohol use.The international journal of tuberculosis and lung disease : the official journal of the International Union against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease · 2020Article
- Statistical Method to Detect Tuberculosis Outbreaks among Endemic Clusters in a Low-Incidence Setting.Emerging infectious diseases · 2018Article
- A highly transmissible tuberculosis outbreak: the importance of bars.Epidemiology and infection · 2017Article
- Spatial-temporal distribution of genotyped tuberculosis cases in a county with active transmission.BMC infectious diseases · 2017Article
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- Reply: Missing Stowaways and Lack of Expected Concurrent Infections.Annals of the American Thoracic Society · 2015Article
- A field-validated approach using surveillance and genotyping data to estimate tuberculosis attributable to recent transmission in the United States.American journal of epidemiology · 2015Article
- Tuberculosis-related stigma leading to an incomplete contact investigation in a low-incidence country.Epidemiology and infection · 2015Article
- Whole-genome sequencing in outbreak analysis.Clinical microbiology reviews · 2015Review
- Tracking a tuberculosis outbreak over 21 years: strain-specific single-nucleotide polymorphism typing combined with targeted whole-genome sequencing.The Journal of infectious diseases · 2015Article
- Characteristics of tuberculosis cases that started outbreaks in the United States, 2002-2011.Emerging infectious diseases · 2015Article
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Abstract
To understand circumstances of tuberculosis transmission that strain public health resources, we systematically reviewed Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) staff reports of US outbreaks in which CDC participated during 2002-2008 that involved ≥3 culture-confirmed tuberculosis cases linked by genotype and epidemiology. Twenty-seven outbreaks, representing 398 patients, were reviewed. Twenty-four of the 27 outbreaks involved primarily US-born patients; substance abuse was another predominant feature of outbreaks. Prolonged infectiousness because of provider- and patient-related factors was common. In 17 outbreaks, a drug house was a notable contributing factor. The most frequently documented intervention to control the outbreak was prioritizing contacts according to risk for infection and disease progression to ensure that the highest risk contacts were completely evaluated. US-born persons with reported substance abuse most strongly characterized the tuberculosis outbreaks in this review. Substance abuse remains one of the greatest challenges to controlling tuberculosis transmission in the United States.
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