… of Mycobacterium tuberculosis transmission are noted in high burden settings and a renewed
focus on reducing person-to-person transmission in … of airborne transmission. We outline …

Background Mycobacterium tuberculosis is characterised by limited genomic diversity, which
makes the application of whole genome sequencing particularly attractive for clinical and …

… epidemiology in Baltimore, for example, found that some patients within DNA fingerprint
clusters of M tuberculosis who were identified as contacts had not been identified as such by …

… ▪ Patients: Twenty-three patients with tuberculosis whose … (case patients) were compared
with patients with tuberculosis … :Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates from case patients and …

… Data support the conclusion that M tuberculosis was transmitted from an infectious crew …
when the index patient was most infectious, transmission of M tuberculosis to passengers …

… of HIV-negative patients for evidence of Mycobacterium tuberculosis transmission, based on
a … In this study, tuberculosis patients with AIDS or HIV infection were less infectious to their …

… A patient who did not transmit tuberculosis before death released a … of Mycobacterium
tuberculosis. Cultures of blood and ascitic fluid obtained 5 days before death were positive for M. …

… Being part of a cluster often suggests that M. tuberculosis was recently transmitted to the
patient. The current study identified four independent risk factors for being part of a cluster. …

… TB transmission to other patients and health care workers (HCWs). These outbreaks occurred
because of the failure to recognize and diagnose TB, resulting in delayed initiation of both …

… has been reported in a child younger than 15 years of age in North Dakota; in the two-county
area around the source patient's residence, there were two cases of tuberculosis in the 5 …