The epidemiology of infectious diseases has traditionally relied on observed patterns of
occurrence to infer transmission. In the case of a disease with a variable incubation period …

If Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates from 2 people have the same genotype, transmission
may have occurred between them. Genotyping based on the insertion sequence IS 6110 …

In systematic studies of the molecular epidemiology of tuberculosis, DNA fingerprinting is
used to estimate the fraction of incident cases attributable to recent transmission of …

Over the past 10 years, molecular methods have become available with which to strain-type
Mycobacterium tuberculosis. They have allowed researchers to study certain important but …

Megan B. Murray lead to transmission of airborne infectious diseases. The 2 studies of
tuberculosis transmission reported in this issue (pages 349 and 353) highlight some of these …

SETTING: Many epidemiologic studies of tuberculosis are being conducted worldwide.
Fingerprinting with a secondary marker in strains with fewer than six IS6110-hybridizing …

The development of DNA fingerprinting techniques for typing Mycobacterium tuberculosis
isolates during the last decade has led to an increasing number of studies of the molecular …

By the mid-1980s, the US public health community considered tuberculosis to be under
control, and a plan was established for its elimination by 2010. Between 1989 and 1992 …

Tuberculosis (TB), caused by the human pathogenic bacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis,
poses a major global health problem. The tubercle bacillus is transmitted from person to …

DNA fingerprinting was used to evaluate epidemiologically linked case pairs found during
routine tuberculosis (TB) contact investigations in seven sentinel sites from 1996 to 2000 …