Assessment of Mycobacterium tuberculosis transmission in Oxfordshire, UK, 2007-12, with whole pathogen genome sequences: An observational study

Background: Patients born outside the UK have contributed to a 20% rise in the UK's tuberculosis incidence since 2000, but their effect on domestic transmission is not known. Here we use whole-genome sequencing to investigate the epidemiology of tuberculosis transmission in an unselected popula...

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Main Authors: Walker, T, Golubchik, T, Giess, A, Del Ojo Elias, C, Walker, A, Crook, D, Peto, T, Conlon, C, Morgan, M, Jeffery, K, Bowler, I, Lalor, M, Anderson, L, Abubakar, I, Thomas, H, Broda, A, Drobniewski, F, Ortega, L, McCarthy, N, Parker, L, Churchill, S, Bennett, K, Laurenson, I, Barrett, A, Monk, P
Format: Journal article
Published: 2014