ArticleEpidemiology and infection2015
A clonal outbreak of tuberculosis in a homeless population in the interior of British Columbia, Canada, 2008-2015.
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- Infectious Diseases Among People Experiencing Homelessness: A Systematic Review of the Literature in the United States and Canada, 2003-2022.Public health reports (Washington, D.C. : 1974)Pooled it
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- Methods in Lung Microbiome Research.American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology · 2020Review
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- Phylogenetic Concepts and Tools Applied to Epidemiologic Investigations of Infectious Diseases.Microbiology spectrum · 2019Review
- A tuberculosis outbreak at an insecure, temporary housing facility, manga café, Tokyo, Japan, 2016-2017.Epidemiology and infection · 2019Article
- Universal genotyping reveals province-level differences in the molecular epidemiology of tuberculosis.PloS one · 2019Article
- Genotyping and Whole-Genome Sequencing to Identify Tuberculosis Transmission to Pediatric Patients in British Columbia, Canada, 2005-2014.The Journal of infectious diseases · 2018Article
- Universal Genotyping for Tuberculosis Prevention Programs: a 5-Year Comparison with On-Request Genotyping.Journal of clinical microbiology · 2018Article
- Outbreak of tuberculosis among substance users and homeless people in Greater Montréal, Canada, 2003-2016.Canada communicable disease report = Releve des maladies transmissibles au Canada · 2017Article
- Declaring a tuberculosis outbreak over with genomic epidemiology.Microbial genomics · 2016Article
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Abstract
A tuberculosis (TB) case was reported May 2008 in Kelowna, British Columbia, leading to a multi-year outbreak in homeless persons. The epidemiological characteristics and social networks of cases are described. Outbreak-related cases were identified from epidemiological information in medical records and from genotyping of TB isolates. Social network information from case interviews were used to identify potential locations of TB transmission, where symptom screening and tuberculin skin testing was conducted. Fifty-two cases that were predominantly male (47/52), Canadian-born (44/50), and were homeless or associated with homeless individuals (42/52) were reported from May 2008 to May 2014. Many isolates (40/49) had partial resistance to isoniazid. Transmission primarily occurred at two homeless shelters, with potential further transmission at sites visited by the general population. TB outbreaks in homeless populations can occur in small, low-incidence cities. Social network information helped prioritize sites for TB screening, thereby improving detection of persons with TB disease or latent infection for treatment.
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