Transmission of Tuberculosis in New York City -- An Analysis by DNA Fingerprinting and Conventional Epidemiologic Methods
- 16 June 1994
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in The New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 330 (24), 1710-1716
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm199406163302403
Abstract
The incidence of tuberculosis and drug resistance is increasing in the United States, but it is not clear how much of the increase is due to reactivation of latent infection and how much to recent transmission.Keywords
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