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| Title |
Using Routinely Reported Tuberculosis Genotyping and Surveillance Data to Predict Tuberculosis Outbreaks
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|---|---|
| Published in |
PLOS ONE, November 2012
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| DOI | 10.1371/journal.pone.0048754 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Sandy P. Althomsons, J. Steven Kammerer, Nong Shang, Thomas R. Navin |
| Abstract |
We combined routinely reported tuberculosis (TB) patient characteristics with genotyping data and measures of geospatial concentration to predict which small clusters (i.e., consisting of only 3 TB patients) in the United States were most likely to become outbreaks of at least 6 TB cases. Of 146 clusters analyzed, 16 (11.0%) grew into outbreaks. Clusters most likely to become outbreaks were those in which at least 1 of the first 3 patients reported homelessness or excess alcohol or illicit drug use or was incarcerated at the time of TB diagnosis and in which the cluster grew rapidly (i.e., the third case was diagnosed within 5.3 months of the first case). Of 17 clusters with these characteristics and therefore considered high risk, 9 (53%) became outbreaks. This retrospective cohort analysis of clusters in the United States suggests that routinely reported data may identify small clusters that are likely to become outbreaks and which are therefore candidates for intensified contact investigations. |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 2 | 33% |
| Colombia | 1 | 17% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 17% |
| Unknown | 2 | 33% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 4 | 67% |
| Scientists | 1 | 17% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 1 | 17% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 92 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 2 | 2% |
| Japan | 1 | 1% |
| Guadeloupe | 1 | 1% |
| Unknown | 88 | 96% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 20 | 22% |
| Researcher | 13 | 14% |
| Student > Bachelor | 8 | 9% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 8 | 9% |
| Other | 5 | 5% |
| Other | 12 | 13% |
| Unknown | 26 | 28% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 25 | 27% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 14 | 15% |
| Social Sciences | 7 | 8% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 4 | 4% |
| Computer Science | 3 | 3% |
| Other | 9 | 10% |
| Unknown | 30 | 33% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 3. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 29 November 2012.
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#7,419,285
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#88,094
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#59,194
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#1,845
of 4,904 outputs
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