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Volume 8, Number 11, November 2002

Tuberculosis Genotyping Network, United States

Use of DNA Fingerprinting To Investigate a Multiyear, Multistate Tuberculosis Outbreak

Peter D. McElroy,* Timothy R. Sterling,† Cynthia R. Driver,‡ Barry Kreiswirth,§ Charles L. Woodley,* Wendy A. Cronin, Darryl X. Hardge,*† Kenneth L. Shilkret,# and Renee Ridzon*
*Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA; †Baltimore City Health Department, Baltimore, Maryland, USA; ‡New York City Department of Health, New York City, New York, USA: §Public Health Research Institute, New York City, New York, USA; Maryland State Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, Baltimore, Maryland, USA; and #New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services, Trenton, New Jersey, USA

 
 
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Figure. Epidemic curve representing 38 tuberculosis patients associated with an outbreak involving the cities of Baltimore and New York and the states of Maryland and New Jersey, 1995-2001. *Numbered boxes represent additional patients detected after the investigation was extended beyond Baltimore (August 1999). Unnumbered patients (and patient 28) were previously described by Sterling et al. (6).

 

 

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