Molecular and Conventional Epidemiology of Tuberculosis in Hong Kong: a Population-Based Prospective Study
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- 1 June 2003
- journal article
- Published by American Society for Microbiology in Journal of Clinical Microbiology
- Vol. 41 (6) , 2706-2708
- https://doi.org/10.1128/jcm.41.6.2706-2708.2003
Abstract
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%.Keywords
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