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Volume 23, Number 3—March 2017
Dispatch

Molecular, Spatial, and Field Epidemiology Suggesting TB Transmission in Community, Not Hospital, Gaborone, Botswana

Diya SurieComments to Author , Othusitse Fane, Alyssa Finlay, Matsiri Ogopotse, James L. Tobias, Eleanor S. Click, Chawangwa Modongo, Nicola M. Zetola, Patrick K. Moonan, John E. Oeltmann, and for the Kopanyo Study Group
Author affiliations: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA (D. Surie, A. Finlay, E.S. Click, P.K. Moonan, J.E. Oeltmann); Botswana-UPenn Partnership, Gaborone, Botswana (O. Fane, M. Ogopotse, C. Modongo, N.M. Zetola); Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Gaborone (A. Finlay); Northrop Grumman, Atlanta, (J.L. Tobias)

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Figure 1

Timing of hospital visits and treatment for 10 tuberculosis cluster–associated patients, Gaborone, Botswana, 2013–2015. Patients were hospitalized or seen in the accident and emergency ward, and all had a history of such visits since 2004. Visits prior to October 2013 are not shown; these include visits in 2012 by patients A and I and additional visits by patients N, T, and U. None of the pre-October 2013 visits overlapped with those of other tuberculosis cluster–associated patients. TB, tubercu

Figure 1. Timing of hospital visits and treatment for 10 tuberculosis (TB) cluster–associated patients, Gaborone, Botswana, 2013–2015. Patients were hospitalized or seen in the accident and emergency ward, and all had a history of such visits since 2004. Visits prior to October 2013 are not shown; these include visits in 2012 by patients A and I and additional visits by patients N, T, and U. None of the pre-October 2013 visits overlapped with those of other TB cluster–associated patients.

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1Other members of the Kopanyo Study Group are listed at the end of this article.

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