ReviewTrends in microbiology2022
Connecting the dots: understanding how human mobility shapes TB epidemics.
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- Long-term spatiotemporal evolution of drug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis in China.Nature communications · 2026Article
- Genomic epidemiology ofMicrobial genomics · 2026Article
- Transmission of bedaquiline-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine · 2026Article
- Molecular Epidemiology of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Across 3 Distinct Geographic Sites in South Africa.The Journal of infectious diseases · 2025Article
- First insights into the genetic composition ofJournal of clinical tuberculosis and other mycobacterial diseases · 2025Article
- Integrating genomic and spatial analyses to describe tuberculosis transmission: a scoping review.The Lancet. Microbe · 2025Article
- Spatial autocorrelation with environmental factors related to tuberculosis prevalence in Nepal, 2020-2023.Infectious diseases of poverty · 2025Article
- Mobility patterns, activity locations, and TB in Nairobi, Kenya.The international journal of tuberculosis and lung disease : the official journal of the International Union against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease · 2025Article
- Development and validation of a nomogram to predict atelectasis in adult lymph node fistula tracheobronchial tuberculosis patients.Frontiers in medicine · 2025Article
- Distribution and transmission of M. tuberculosis in a high-HIV prevalence city in Malawi: A genomic and spatial analysis.PLOS global public health · 2025Article
- One Half of the Pair: Prioritizing Tuberculosis Transmitters for Early Detection.American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine · 2024Article
- Leveraging Ecological Momentary Assessment Data to Characterize Individual Mobility: Exploratory Pilot Study in Rural Uganda.JMIR formative research · 2024Article
- Spatial Analysis of Drug-Susceptible and Multidrug-Resistant Cases of Tuberculosis, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, 2020-2023.Emerging infectious diseases · 2024Article
- Spatial scale of tuberculosis transmission in Lima, Peru.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2022Article
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Abstract
Tuberculosis (TB) remains a leading infectious cause of death worldwide. Reducing TB infections and TB-related deaths rests ultimately on stopping forward transmission from infectious to susceptible individuals. Critical to this effort is understanding how human host mobility shapes the transmission and dispersal of new or existing strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb). Important questions remain unanswered. What kinds of mobility, over what temporal and spatial scales, facilitate TB transmission? How do human mobility patterns influence the dispersal of novel Mtb strains, including emergent drug-resistant strains? This review summarizes the current state of knowledge on mobility and TB epidemic dynamics, using examples from three topic areas, including inference of genetic and spatial clustering of infections, delineating source-sink dynamics, and mapping the dispersal of novel TB strains, to examine scientific questions and methodological issues within this topic. We also review new data sources for measuring human mobility, including mobile phone-associated movement data, and discuss important limitations on their use in TB epidemiology.
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