TY - JOUR AU - Surie, Diya AU - Fane, Othusitse AU - Finlay, Alyssa AU - Ogopotse, Matsiri AU - Tobias, James AU - Click, Eleanor AU - Modongo, Chawangwa AU - Zetola, Nicola AU - Moonan, Patrick AU - Oeltmann, John T1 - Molecular, Spatial, and Field Epidemiology Suggesting TB Transmission in Community, Not Hospital, Gaborone, Botswana T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal PY - 2017 VL - 23 IS - 3 SP - 487 SN - 1080-6059 AB - During 2012–2015, 10 of 24 patients infected with matching genotypes of Mycobacterium tuberculosis received care at the same hospital in Gaborone, Botswana. Nosocomial transmission was initially suspected, but we discovered plausible sites of community transmission for 20 (95%) of 21 interviewed patients. Active case-finding at these sites could halt ongoing transmission. KW - Mycobacterium tuberculosis KW - tuberculosis KW - TB KW - genotyping KW - mapping KW - GIS KW - geographic information system KW - transmission dynamics KW - outbreak KW - nosocomial transmission KW - cluster KW - community transmission KW - transmission KW - Africa KW - Gaborone KW - Botswana KW - tuberculosis and other mycobacteria KW - bacteria KW - epidemiology DO - 10.3201/eid2303.161183 UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/23/3/16-1183_article ER - End of Reference