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Volume 25, Number 3—March 2019
Dispatch

Response to Isoniazid-Resistant Tuberculosis in Homeless Shelters, Georgia, USA, 2015–2017

David P. HollandComments to Author , Shanica Alexander, Udodirim Onwubiko, Neela D. Goswami, Aliya Yamin, Omar Mohamed, Rose-Marie Sales, Gail Grant, Phillip Talboy, Susan Ray, and Kathleen E. Toomey
Author affiliations: Fulton County Board of Health, Atlanta, Georgia, USA (D.P. Holland, S. Alexander, A. Yamin, O. Mohamed, K.E. Toomey); Emory University, Atlanta (D.P. Holland, N.D. Goswami, S. Ray); Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta (S. Alexander, G. Grant, P. Talboy); Georgia Department of Public Health, Atlanta (U. Onwubiko, R.-M. Sales, S. Ray)

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Figure 1

Outbreak-associated tuberculosis cases, Fulton County, Georgia, USA, 2008–2017. Culture-positive patients had >1 positive sputum culture with an isolate that had the outbreak-related genotype. Patients with clinical disease did not have a positive culture result but were epidemiologically linked to stays in homeless shelters before the diagnosis of tuberculosis was made.

Figure 1. Outbreak-associated tuberculosis cases, Fulton County, Georgia, USA, 2008–2017. Culture-positive patients had >1 positive sputum culture with an isolate that had the outbreak-related genotype. Patients with clinical disease did not have a positive culture result but were epidemiologically linked to stays in homeless shelters before the diagnosis of tuberculosis was made.

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