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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 2

Residence-associated data for patients in a tuberculosis cluster, Gaborone, Botswana, 2012–2015. A) Primary residences of 20 patients are indicated by red dots. Inset map shows location of Gaborone in Botswana. Black lines demarcate neighborhoods; gray lines demarcate property parcels; pink circles represent 0.5-km radius around a patient’s residence; and red rectangles indicate presence of 14 patients in 4 distinct neighborhoods, 13 of whom had spatial links. Four patients who are not depicted

Figure 2. Residence-associated data for patients in a tuberculosis cluster, Gaborone, Botswana, 2012–2015. A) Primary residences of 20 patients are indicated by red dots. Inset map shows location of Gaborone in Botswana. Black lines demarcate neighborhoods; gray lines demarcate property parcels; pink circles represent 0.5-km radius around a patient’s residence; and red rectangles indicate presence of 14 patients in 4 distinct neighborhoods, 13 of whom had spatial links. Four patients who are not depicted on this map lived outside of Gaborone and did not have any spatial links between them. B) Primary residences of 5 patients who lived in the same neighborhood. Parcels locations were intentionally not shown to protect individual case anonymity. Geodata were sourced from Statistics Botswana (http://www.cso.gov.bw).

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

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