Molecular and Conventional Epidemiology of Tuberculosis in Hong Kong: a Population-Based Prospective Study
2003; American Society for Microbiology; Volume: 41; Issue: 6 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1128/jcm.41.6.2706-2708.2003
ISSN1098-660X
AutoresMoira Chan‐Yeung, Cheuk‐Ming Tam, Harriet Wong, Chi‐Chiu Leung, Julie Wang, Wing-Wai Yew, Chak-Wah Lam, Kai‐Man Kam,
Tópico(s)Diagnosis and treatment of tuberculosis
ResumoABSTRACT A prospective population-based molecular and conventional epidemiological study of 65.4% of bacteriologically confirmed cases of tuberculosis was carried out on the island of Hong Kong from May 1999 to Oct 2000 by the IS 6110 -based restriction fragment length polymorphism technique. Eleven of the isolates had five or fewer bands; 24.5% of the remaining 691 isolates belonged to clusters. The estimated proportion of recently transmitted disease was 15 to 20%.
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