Volume 19, Number 3—March 2013
Dispatch
Prioritizing Tuberculosis Clusters by Genotype for Public Health Action, Washington, USA
Table
Comparison of geospatial analysis results and expert panel priority status rankings for county-level genotype clusters of TB cases, Washington, USA, 2005–2010*
County | Spoliogtype | 12-locus MIRU-VNTR | Period 1† |
Period 2† |
Key epidemiologic features‡ | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
No. cases | LLR | Expert priority | No. cases | LLR | Expert priority | |||||
A | 000000000003771 | 223321153643 | 32 | 31.8 | High | 19 | 18.3 | High | H, SA | |
000000000003771 | 223325173533 | 17 | 0.1 | High | 8 | 0.4 | Low | FB | ||
677777477413771 | 254326223432 | 14 | 0.2 | Low | 14 | 0.1 | Low | FB | ||
703377400001771 | 227425113434 | 4 | 1.2 | Low | 6 | 2.9 | Low | FB, H | ||
000000000003771 | 223325153533 | 3 | 0.5 | Low | 1 | <0.01 | Low | FB | ||
000000000003771 | 223325163533 | 3 | 0.2 | Low | 7 | 1.7 | Low | FB, SA | ||
677777477413771 | 254326223422 | 6 | 1.3 | Low | 4 | 0.4 | Low | FB | ||
777000377760771 | 225125113322 | 3 | 0.6 | Low | 3 | 1.0 | Low | FB | ||
000000000003771 | 222325173543 | 9 | 2.4 | High | 3 | 0.1 | High | H, SA | ||
777777777760771 | 225125113322 | 3 | 0.7 | Low | 2 | 0.4 | Low | FB | ||
000000000003771 | 222325173533 | 7 | 2.6 | High | 8 | 2.3 | High | |||
000000000003771 | 223325173433 | 3 | 1.5 | Low | 1 | 0.2 | Low | FB | ||
000000000003771 | 223325133533 | 3 | 1.4 | Low | 0 | <0.01 | Low | FB | ||
000000000000000 | 223325123534 | 4 | 9.2 | High | 0 | <0.01 | Low | H, SA | ||
777776777620601 |
224325153323 |
3 |
4.4 |
High |
0 |
0.03 |
Low |
H, SA |
||
B |
000000000003771 |
223425173563 |
13 |
19.5 |
High |
8 |
13 |
High |
H, SA |
|
C | 677777477413771 | 254326223432 | 6 | 1.3 | Low | 3 | <0.01 | Low | FB, SA | |
777776777760771 |
125325153225 |
7 |
9.8 |
High |
2 |
1.8 |
High |
H, SA |
||
D | 677777477413771 | 254326223432 | 5 | 0.8 | Low | 4 | 0.4 | Low | FB | |
777776757760771 |
223325143324 |
6 |
8.7 |
High |
1 |
1.2 |
Low |
|||
E | 677777477413771 | 254326223432 | 3 | 1.0 | Low | 2 | 0.9 | Low | FB |
*LLRs >5.0 (boldface) indicate greater possibility that the cluster represents geographically concentrated TB cases, a proxy for recent TB transmission). TB, tuberculosis; MIRU-VNTR, mycobacterial interspersed repetitive unit–variable number tandem repeat; LLR, log-likelihood ratio, a measure of geospatial concentration; H, homelessness; FB, foreign born; SA, substance abuse.
†Period 1, January 1, 2005–December 31, 2007; period 2, January 1, 2008–December 31, 2010.
‡Blank cells indicate none present.