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Molecular and conventional epidemiology of tuberculosis in Hong Kong: a population-based prospective study
Moira Chan-Yeung1, Cheuk-Ming Tam, Harriet Wong
1Hong Kong Government Tuberculosis and Chest Service, Department of Health, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Special Administrative Region, People's Republic of China.
Journal of Clinical Microbiology
|June 7, 2003
Abstract:
A prospective population-based molecular and conventional epidemiological study of 65.4% of bacteriologically confirmed cases of tuberculosis was carried out on the island of Hong Kong from May 1999 to Oct 2000 by the IS6110-based restriction fragment length polymorphism technique. Eleven of the isolates had five or fewer bands; 24.5% of the remaining 691 isolates belonged to clusters. The estimated proportion of recently transmitted disease was 15 to 20%.