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Transmission of tuberculosis within family-households
Ewa Augustynowicz-Kopeć,Tomasz Jagielski,Monika Kozińska,Kristin Kremer,Dick van Soolingen,Jacek Bielecki,Zofia Zwolska +6 more
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The household setting shows the household setting as an important reservoir of M. tuberculosis transmission, and argues in favor of routine and extensive screening of the family contacts of TB patients, and is the first to provide a molecular epidemiological investigation performed within family-households in Poland.About:
This article is published in Journal of Infection.The article was published on 2012-06-01. It has received 40 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Mycobacterium tuberculosis & Tuberculosis.read more
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Current Methods in the Molecular Typing of Mycobacterium tuberculosis and Other Mycobacteria.
Tomasz Jagielski,Jakko van Ingen,Nalin Rastogi,Jarosław Dziadek,Pawel K. Mazur,Jacek Bielecki +5 more
TL;DR: This review summarizes currently available molecular methods for strain typing of M. tuberculosis and some NTM species, most commonly associated with human disease.
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Within-patient emergence of the influenza A(H1N1)pdm09 HA1 222G variant and clear association with severe disease, Norway.
TL;DR: In cases with mutant virus where clinical specimens from different days of illness were available, transition from wild-type to mutant virus was commonly observed, indicating that the mutant virus emerged sporadically in individual patients.
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Mycobacterium tuberculosis Latin American-Mediterranean Family and Its Sublineages in the Light of Robust Evolutionary Markers
TL;DR: Its dissemination pattern and high prevalence rate in Northern Eurasia may indicate a long-term coexistence of the LAM-RUS sublineage and local human populations hypothetically leading to coadaptation and reduced pathogenicity of the relatively more ancient clones, such as spoligotype international type 254 (SIT254), compared to the more recent SIT252 and SIT266 clones.
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Recent household transmission of tuberculosis in England, 2010–2012: retrospective national cohort study combining epidemiological and molecular strain typing data
Maeve K. Lalor,Maeve K. Lalor,Laura F Anderson,Esther L Hamblion,Andy Burkitt,Jennifer Davidson,Helen Maguire,Helen Maguire,Ibrahim Abubakar,Ibrahim Abubakar,H Lucy Thomas +10 more
TL;DR: The finding that no lineage of TB was associated with recent household transmission and with no increased transmissibility in the Beijing lineage compared to others, suggests that the lineage need not impact contact tracing efforts.
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Stochastic agent-based modeling of tuberculosis in Canadian Indigenous communities
Ashleigh R. Tuite,Ashleigh R. Tuite,Victor Gallant,Elaine Randell,Annie-Claude Bourgeois,Amy L. Greer +5 more
TL;DR: In a region of northern Canada experiencing a significant TB burden, more rapid treatment initiation in active TB cases was the most impactful intervention evaluated and can provide guidance for allocation of limited resources in a way that minimizes disease transmission and protects population health.
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Simultaneous detection and strain differentiation of Mycobacterium tuberculosis for diagnosis and epidemiology.
Judith Kamerbeek,Leo M. Schouls,Arend H. J. Kolk,M van Agterveld,D. van Soolingen,Sjoukje Kuijper,Annelies Bunschoten,H Molhuizen,R J Shaw,M Goyal,J. D. A. Van Embden +10 more
TL;DR: A novel method based on strain-dependent hybridization patterns of in vitro-amplified DNA with multiple spacer oligonucleotides was found to differentiate M. bovis from M. tuberculosis, a distinction which is often difficult to make by traditional methods.
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Strain identification of Mycobacterium tuberculosis by DNA fingerprinting: recommendations for a standardized methodology.
J. D. A. Van Embden,M. D. Cave,Jack T. Crawford,J. W. Dale,K. D. Eisenach,B Gicquel,Peter W. M. Hermans,Carlos Martin,R. A. Mcadam,Thomas M. Shinnick +9 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors proposed a standardized technique which exploits variability in both the number and genomic position of IS6110 to generate strain-specific patterns for DNA fingerprinting of Mycobacterium tuberculosis.
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Proposal for Standardization of Optimized Mycobacterial Interspersed Repetitive Unit-Variable-Number Tandem Repeat Typing of Mycobacterium tuberculosis
Philip Supply,Philip Supply,Caroline Allix,Sarah Lesjean,Sarah Lesjean,Mara Cardoso-Oelemann,Mara Cardoso-Oelemann,Sabine Rüsch-Gerdes,Eve Willery,Eve Willery,Evgueni Savine,Evgueni Savine,Petra E. W. de Haas,Henk van Deutekom,Solvig Roring,Pablo Bifani,Natalia Kurepina,Barry N. Kreiswirth,Christophe Sola,Nalin Rastogi,Vincent Vatin,Vincent Vatin,Maria Cristina Gutierrez,Maryse Fauville,Stefan Niemann,Robin A. Skuce,Kristin Kremer,Camille Locht,Camille Locht,Dick van Soolingen +29 more
TL;DR: A discriminatory subset of 15 loci with the highest evolutionary rates was defined that concentrated 96% of the total resolution obtained with the full 24-locus set, and its predictive value for evaluating M. tuberculosis transmission was found to be equal to that of IS6110 restriction fragment length polymorphism typing.
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Transmission of Mycobacterium tuberculosis from patients smear-negative for acid-fast bacilli
Marcel A. Behr,S. A. Warren,Hugh Salamon,Philip C. Hopewell,A. Ponce de Leon,Charles L. Daley,Peter M. Small +6 more
TL;DR: In San Francisco, the acid-fast-bacilli smear identifies the most infectious patients, but patients with smear-negative culture-positive tuberculosis appear responsible for about 17% of tuberculosis transmission.
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Snapshot of Moving and Expanding Clones of Mycobacterium tuberculosis and Their Global Distribution Assessed by Spoligotyping in an International Study
Ingrid Filliol,Jeffrey Driscoll,Dick van Soolingen,Barry N. Kreiswirth,Kristin Kremer,Georges Valétudie,Dang Duc Anh,Rachael E. L. Barlow,Dilip K. Banerjee,Pablo Bifani,Karine Brudey,Ángel Adrián Cataldi,Robert C. Cooksey,Debby Cousins,Jeremy W. Dale,Odir Antônio Dellagostin,Francis Drobniewski,Guido Engelmann,Séverine Ferdinand,Deborah Gascoyne-Binzi,Max Gordon,M. Cristina Gutierrez,Walter Haas,Herre Heersma,Eric Kassa-Kelembho,Ho Minh Ly,Athanasios Makristathis,Caterina Mammina,Gerald Martin,Peter Moström,Igor Mokrousov,Valérie Narbonne,Olga Narvskaya,Antonino Nastasi,Sara Ngo Niobe-Eyangoh,Jean W. Pape,Voahangy Rasolofo-Razanamparany,Malin Ridell,M Lucia Rossetti,Fritz Stauffer,Philip Noel Suffys,Howard Takiff,Jeanne Texier-Maugein,Véronique Vincent,Jacobus H. de Waard,Christophe Sola,Nalin Rastogi +46 more
TL;DR: To facilitate the analysis of hundreds of spoligotypes each made up of a binary succession of 43 bits of information, a number of major and minor visual rules were also defined to define 36 major clades (or families) of M. tuberculosis.