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Volume 21, Number 3—March 2015
Dispatch

Tuberculosis Microepidemics among Dispersed Migrants, Birmingham, UK, 2004–2013

Melinda L. Munang1Comments to Author , Catherine Browne1, Shaina Khanom, Jason T. Evans, E. Grace Smith, Peter M. Hawkey, Heinke Kunst, Steven B. Welch, and Martin Dedicoat
Author affiliations: Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust, Birmingham, UK (M.L. Munang, C. Browne, S.B. Welch, M.J. Dedicoat); Public Health England Regional Centre for Mycobacteriology, Birmingham (S. Khanom, J.T. Evans, E.G. Smith, P.M. Hawkey); Queen Mary University of London, London, UK (H. Kunst)

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Social network of Eritrea-born patients with TB in relation to 6 distinct 24-loci MIRU-VNTR strain-type clusters and associated cluster members born elsewhere, United Kingdom, January 2009–December 2013. Nonclustered Eritrean patients are included if >1 epidemiologic link to clustered patients is known. Circles denote Eritrea-born patients; triangles denote patients born elsewhere; solid squares denote places of social mixing. For patients, labels denote strain type cluster (A–F; X, no strain

Figure. Social network of Eritrea-born patients with TB in relation to 6 distinct 24-loci MIRU-VNTR strain-type clusters and associated cluster members born elsewhere, United Kingdom, January 2009–December 2013. Nonclustered Eritrean patients are included if >1 epidemiologic link to clustered patients is known. Circles denote Eritrea-born patients; triangles denote patients born elsewhere; solid squares denote places of social mixing. For patients, labels denote strain type cluster (A–F; X, no strain typing available) and chronological order of case notification within each strain type cluster. For places, labels denote type (H, private home; RV, religious venue; SC, school; WP, workplace). Patients associated with private homes may or may not usually reside at the address. Double lines with arrows denote connections between TB patients who named each other as contacts during routine contact tracing investigations. Detached symbols at the bottom indicate persons for whom no epidemiologic links to any other case were detected. MIRU-VNTR, mycobacterial interspersed repetitive units variable-number tandem-repeat; TB, tuberculosis.

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1These authors contributed equally to this article.

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