Editor’s Note: The following blog provides information about a federal partner’s digital efforts. Throughout the year we will share information from other federal HIV programs. From health officers conducting contact tracing with mobile phones in Ebola-affected countries to TB patients…
South African Study Provides Compelling New Evidence on Role of Person-to Person Transmission in Drug-Resistant TB Epidemics
Cross-posted from CDC Global HIV and Tuberculosis
CDC/Emory/NIH study published in The New England Journal of Medicine adds to growing body of evidence that extensively drug-resistant TB is fueled more by direct transmission than previously thought in high-burden settings. A study published today in The New England…