Extent of transmission captured by contact tracing in a tuberculosis high endemic setting

Eur Respir J. 2017 Mar 22;49(3):1601851. doi: 10.1183/13993003.01851-2016. Print 2017 Mar.

Karen Bjorn-Mortensen^{1

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4}, Troels Lillebaek², Anders Koch⁵, Bolette Soborg⁵, Karin Ladefoged⁶, Hans Christian Florian Sørensen⁷, Thomas Andreas Kohl^{8

9}, Stefan Niemann^{8

9}, Aase Bengaard Andersen^{4

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¹ Dept of Epidemiology Research, Statens Serum Institut, Copenhagen, Denmark kabm@ssi.dk.
² International Reference Laboratory of Mycobacteriology, Statens Serum Institut, Copenhagen, Denmark.
³ Greenland's Center of Health Research, Nuuk, Greenland.
⁴ Research Unit for Infectious Diseases, Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark.
⁵ Dept of Epidemiology Research, Statens Serum Institut, Copenhagen, Denmark.
⁶ Dept of Internal Medicine, Queen Ingrid's Hospital, Nuuk, Greenland.
⁷ Tasiilaq Hospital, Tasiilaq, Greenland.
⁸ Molecular and Experimental Mycobacteriology, Forschungszentrum Borstel, Leibniz-Zentrum für Medizin und Biowissenschaften, Borstel, Germany.
⁹ German Center for Infection Research (DZIF), partner site Borstel, Borstel, Germany.
¹⁰ Dept of Infectious Diseases, Copenhagen University Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark.

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