Model-based Analysis of Tuberculosis Genotype Clusters in the United States Reveals High Degree of Heterogeneity in Transmission and State-level Differences Across California, Florida, New York, and Texas
Shrestha S, Winglee K, Hill A, Shaw T, Smith J, Kammerer JS, Silk BJ, Marks S, Dowdy D. Model-based Analysis of Tuberculosis Genotype Clusters in the United States Reveals High Degree of Heterogeneity in Transmission and State-level Differences Across California, Florida, New York, and Texas. Clinical Infectious Diseases 2022, 75: 1433-1441. PMID: 35143641, PMCID: PMC9412192, DOI: 10.1093/cid/ciac121.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsTB casesTB transmissionKey public health priorityPublic health priorityMechanistic transmission modelsTB incidenceTuberculosis transmissionSecondary casesHealth priorityInfectious casesTransmission clustersDisease controlMean numberR0 estimatesUnited StatesWhole-genome sequencingSame countyGenotype clustersState-level differencesSecondary transmissionCasesIncidence