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Distinct Modes of Transmission of Tuberculosis in Aboriginal and Non-Aboriginal Populations in Taiwan
- Source :
- PLoS ONE, PLoS ONE, Vol 9, Iss 11, p e112633 (2014)
- Publication Year :
- 2014
- Publisher :
- Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2014.
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Abstract
- Tuberculosis incidence among aborigines is significantly higher than for Han Chinese in Taiwan, but the extent to which Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) strain characteristics contribute to this difference is not well understood. MTB isolates from aborigines and Han Chinese living in eastern and southern Taiwan, the major regions of aborigines, were analyzed by spoligotyping and 24-loci MIRU-VNTR. In eastern Taiwan, 60% of aboriginal patients were ≤20 years old, significantly younger than the non-aboriginal patients there; aborigines were more likely to have clustered MTB isolates than Han Chinese (odds ratio (OR) = 5.98, p
- Subjects :
- Adult
Male
Tuberculosis
Infectious Disease Control
Adolescent
Genotype
Antitubercular Agents
Taiwan
Ethnic group
lcsh:Medicine
Plant Science
Microbial Sensitivity Tests
Minisatellite Repeats
Disease Surveillance
Mycobacterium tuberculosis
Asian People
Drug Resistance, Multiple, Bacterial
Medicine and Health Sciences
Ethnicity
Humans
Medicine
lcsh:Science
Tuberculosis, Pulmonary
Aged
Multidisciplinary
biology
business.industry
Multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis
lcsh:R
Biology and Life Sciences
Extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis
Odds ratio
Plant Pathology
Middle Aged
biology.organism_classification
medicine.disease
Multiple drug resistance
Infectious Diseases
Infectious Disease Surveillance
lcsh:Q
Female
business
Genome, Bacterial
Research Article
Multilocus Sequence Typing
Demography
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 19326203
- Volume :
- 9
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- PLoS ONE
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....d049af34ea11f85ceb72f18cc4b2e846