A cluster of multidrug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis among patients arriving in Europe from the Horn of Africa: a molecular epidemiological study

The risk of tuberculosis outbreaks among people fleeing hardship for refuge in Europe is heightened. We describe the cross-border European response to an outbreak of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis among patients from the Horn of Africa and Sudan. On April 29 and May 30, 2016, the Swiss and German...

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Published in:	The Lancet infectious diseases Vol. 18; no. 4; pp. 431 - 440
Main Authors:	Walker, Timothy M, Merker, Matthias, Knoblauch, Astrid M, Helbling, Peter, Schoch, Otto D, van der Werf, Marieke J, Kranzer, Katharina, Fiebig, Lena, Kröger, Stefan, Haas, Walter, Hoffmann, Harald, Indra, Alexander, Egli, Adrian, Cirillo, Daniela M, Robert, Jérôme, Rogers, Thomas R, Groenheit, Ramona, Mengshoel, Anne T, Mathys, Vanessa, Haanperä, Marjo, Soolingen, Dick van, Niemann, Stefan, Böttger, Erik C, Keller, Peter M, Avsar, Korkut, Bauer, Christoph, Bernasconi, Enos, Borroni, Emanuele, Brusin, Sergio, Coscollá Dévis, Mireia, Crook, Derrick W., Dedicoat, Martin, Fitzgibbon, Margaret, Gagneux, Sébastien, Geiger, Francisca, Guthmann, Jean-Paul, Hendrickx, David, Hoffmann-Thiel, Sabine, van Ingen, Jakko, Jackson, Sarah, Jaton, Katia, Lange, Christoph, Mazza Stalder, Jessica, O'Donnell, Joan, Opota, Onya, Peto, Tim E.A., Preiswerk, Benjamin, Roycroft, Emma, Sato, Mariko, Schacher, Regina, Schulthess, Bettina, Smith, E. Grace, Soini, Hanna, Sougakoff, Wladimir, Tagliani, Elisa, Utpatel, Christian, Veziris, Nicolas, Wagner-Wiening, Christiane, Witschi, Mark
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	United States Elsevier Ltd 01.04.2018 Elsevier Limited New York, NY : Elsevier Science ; The Lancet Pub. Group, 2001 Elsevier Science ;, The Lancet Pub. Group
Subjects:	Adolescent Adult Africa Algorithms Animals Antitubercular Agents - pharmacology Bacteriology Boundaries Child Cluster Analysis Colleges & universities Disease Transmission, Infectious Drug resistance Emigrants and Immigrants Epidemics Epidemiology Europe - epidemiology Female Genome, Bacterial Genomes Humans Infectious diseases Information sharing Life Sciences Lungs Male Medical research Microbial Sensitivity Tests Microbiology and Parasitology Migration Minisatellite Repeats Molecular Epidemiology Molecular Typing Multidrug resistance Multidrug resistant organisms Mycobacterium tuberculosis Mycobacterium tuberculosis - classification Mycobacterium tuberculosis - drug effects Mycobacterium tuberculosis - genetics Mycobacterium tuberculosis - isolation & purification Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide Public health Systematic review Tuberculosis Tuberculosis, Multidrug-Resistant - epidemiology Whole Genome Sequencing Young Adult Europe Africa Somalia Italy Horn of Africa
ISSN:	1473-3099, 1474-4457, 1474-4457
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