First outbreak of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) in Denmark involving six Danish-born cases

First outbreak of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) in Denmark involving six Danish-born cases

Background: Denmark is a low-incidence country for tuberculosis (TB) and multidrug-resistant (MDR) TB at 5 and 0.05 cases per 100,000 population, respectively. Until 2018, the transmission of MDR-TB was nonexistent except for a few pairwise related family cases. In this study, we describe the first...

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Main Authors: Camilla Hiul Suppli, Anders Norman, Dorte Bek Folkvardsen, Tina Nørregaard Gissel, Ulla Møller Weinreich, Anders Koch, Christian Wejse, Troels Lillebaek
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2022-04-01
Series:International Journal of Infectious Diseases
Subjects:
Tuberculosis
TB
MDR-TB
whole genome sequence WGS
contact tracing
Denmark
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1201971222000959

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