Determining the risk-factors for molecular clustering of drug-resistant tuberculosis in South Africa

• Main Authors: Halima Said (Author), Elizabeth Kachingwe (Author), Yasmin Gardee (Author), Zaheda Bhyat (Author), John Ratabane (Author), Linda Erasmus (Author), Tiisetso Lebaka (Author), Minty van der Meulen (Author), Thabisile Gwala (Author), Shaheed Omar (Author), Farzana Ismail (Author), Nazir Ismail (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2023-11-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB) epidemic is driven mainly by the effect of ongoing transmission. In high-burden settings such as South Africa (SA), considerable demographic and geographic heterogeneity in DR-TB transmission exists. Thus, a better understanding of risk-factors...