Investigating extradomiciliary transmission of tuberculosis: An exploratory approach using social network patterns of TB cases and controls and the genotyping of Mycobacterium tuberculosis

Extradomiciliary contacts have been overlooked in the study of TB transmission due to difficulties in identifying actual contacts in large populations. Complex network analysis provides a framework to model the structure of contacts, specially extradomiciliary ones. We conducted a study of incident...

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Published in:	Tuberculosis (Edinburgh, Scotland) Vol. 125; p. 102010
Main Authors:	Pinho, Suani T.R., Pereira, Susan M., Miranda, José G.V., Duarte, Tonya A., Nery, Joilda S., de Oliveira, Maeli G., Freitas, M. Yana G.S., De Almeida, Naila A., Moreira, Fabio B., Gomes, Raoni B.C., Kerr, Ligia, Kendall, Carl, Gomes, M. Gabriela M., Bessa, Theolis C.B., Andrade, Roberto F.S., Barreto, Mauricio L.
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	Scotland Elsevier Ltd 01-12-2020 Elsevier Science Ltd
Subjects:	Data collection Disease transmission Genotyping Infection Information processing Molecular epidemiology Mycobacterium tuberculosis Network analysis Social factors Social interactions Social networks Social organization Sputum Tuberculosis Infection Molecular epidemiology Social networks Tuberculosis
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