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Recent Transmission of Tuberculosis - United States, 2011-2014.
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93 citing papers in PubMed, 5 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
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- Methods used in the spatial analysis of tuberculosis epidemiology: a systematic review.BMC medicine · 2018Pooled it
- Progression from latent infection to active disease in dynamic tuberculosis transmission models: a systematic review of the validity of modelling assumptions.The Lancet. Infectious diseases · 2018Pooled it
- Molecular clustering of patients with diabetes and pulmonary tuberculosis: A systematic review and meta-analysis.PloS one · 2017Pooled it
- 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
- Using a medication event monitoring system to evaluate self-report and pill count for determining treatment completion with self-administered, once-weekly isoniazid and rifapentine.Contemporary clinical trials · 2023Trial
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- Self-administered Versus Directly Observed Once-Weekly Isoniazid and Rifapentine Treatment of Latent Tuberculosis Infection: A Randomized Trial.Annals of internal medicine · 2017Trial
- Characteristics of Plausible Source Cases Responsible for Recent Mycobacterium tuberculosis Transmission, United States, 2018-2022.Emerging infectious diseases · 2026Article
- Measuring recent in-country TB transmission using a classification model with whole genome sequencing data.IJTLD open · 2026Article
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- Identifying Gaps in Tuberculosis Preventive Care for Non-U.S.-born Persons at Community Health Clinics in the United States.Open forum infectious diseases · 2025Article
- The Role of Electronic Medical Record Automation in Latent Tuberculosis Screening and Treatment in a Large Health System.Open forum infectious diseases · 2025Article
- Policy Impediments to Tuberculosis Elimination: Consequences of an Absent Medicare National Coverage Determination for Tuberculosis Prevention.Journal of immigrant and minority health · 2025Article
- Cost-effectiveness of screening with transcriptional signatures for incipient TB among U.S. migrants.PLoS medicine · 2025Article
- Use of different genotyping methods to estimate TB transmission in the United States, 2020-2021.The international journal of tuberculosis and lung disease : the official journal of the International Union against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease · 2025Article
- Model-Based Analysis of Impact, Costs, and Cost-effectiveness of Tuberculosis Outbreak Investigations, United States.Emerging infectious diseases · 2025Article
- Latent Tuberculosis Infection Testing Practices in a Large US Integrated Healthcare System.Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America · 2024Article
- Patterns of TB transmission in the United States, 2011-2017.The international journal of tuberculosis and lung disease : the official journal of the International Union against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease · 2024Article
- Cost-effectiveness of expanded latent TB infection testing and treatment: Lynn City, Massachusetts, USA.The international journal of tuberculosis and lung disease : the official journal of the International Union against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease · 2024Article
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Abstract
Tuberculosis is an infectious disease that may result from recent transmission or from an infection acquired many years in the past; there is no diagnostic test to distinguish the two causes. Cases resulting from recent transmission are particularly concerning from a public health standpoint. To describe recent tuberculosis transmission in the United States, we used a field-validated plausible source-case method to estimate cases likely resulting from recent transmission during January 2011-September 2014. We classified cases as resulting from either limited or extensive recent transmission based on transmission cluster size. We used logistic regression to analyze patient characteristics associated with recent transmission. Of 26,586 genotyped cases, 14% were attributable to recent transmission, 39% of which were attributable to extensive recent transmission. The burden of cases attributed to recent transmission was geographically heterogeneous and poorly predicted by tuberculosis incidence. Extensive recent transmission was positively associated with American Indian/Alaska Native (adjusted prevalence ratio [aPR] = 3.6 (95% confidence interval [CI] 2.9-4.4), Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander (aPR = 3.2, 95% CI 2.3-4.5), and black (aPR = 3.0, 95% CI 2.6-3.5) race, and homelessness (aPR = 2.3, 95% CI 2.0-2.5). Extensive recent transmission was negatively associated with foreign birth (aPR = 0.2, 95% CI 0.2-0.2). Tuberculosis control efforts should prioritize reducing transmission among higher-risk populations.
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