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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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Table 2

Epidemiologic links between patients in a tuberculosis cluster, Gaborone, Botswana, 2012–2015

Link No./no. total %
Location
Any 20/21* 95
Hospital A 2/24† 8
Combi routes 16/21 76
Spatial 13/24 54
Bars 11/21 52
Churches
 8/21
 38
Named contacts
 6/21
 29
No. links
>2 14/21 67
>3 11/21 52
>4 3/21 14

*Only 21/24 cluster-associated patients were reachable for interview regarding epidemiologic links associated with contacts, combi routes used, and places of socialization and worship.
†Hospital visits for 2 patients overlapped, but tuberculosis transmission between them probably did not occur because the patients were hospitalized in separate buildings and the time between tuberculosis exposure and treatment initiation (13 d) is an extremely short time for disease to develop.

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

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