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Volume 27, Number 3—March 2021
Research

Local and Travel-Associated Transmission of Tuberculosis at Central Western Border of Brazil, 2014–2017

Katharine S. Walter1Comments to Author , Mariana Bento Tatara1, Kesia Esther da Silva, Flora Martinez Figueira Moreira, Paulo Cesar Pereira dos Santos, Dândrea Driely de Melo Ferrari, Eunice Atsuko Cunha, Jason R. Andrews2, and Julio Croda2
Author affiliations: Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, USA (K.S. Walter, K.E. da Silva, J.R. Andrews); Federal University of Grande Dourados, Dourados, Brazil (M.B. Tatara, F.M.F. Moreira, P.C.P. dos Santos, D.D. de Melo Ferrari); Central Laboratory of Public Health, Campo Grande, Brazil (E.A. Cunha); Federal University of Mato Grosso do Sul, Campo Grande, Brazil (J. Croda); Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil (J. Croda); Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, Connecticut, USA (J. Croda)

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Figure 1

Tuberculosis case notifications in border cities in Mato Grosso do Sul state, Brazil. A) Location of Mato Grosso do Sul state (pink); dots indicate the 3 largest border cities, Ponta Porã, Corumbá, and Ladário, which is surrounded by Corumbá. B) Tuberculosis notifications in the 3 border cities reported in the state tuberculosis registry, SINAN, from 2010–2018 (red line), and the proportion of yearly notified cases sampled (blue bars) in this study, January 2014–April 2017.

Figure 1. Tuberculosis case notifications in border cities in Mato Grosso do Sul state, Brazil. A) Location of Mato Grosso do Sul state (pink); dots indicate the 3 largest border cities, Ponta Porã, Corumbá, and Ladário, which is surrounded by Corumbá. B) Tuberculosis notifications in the 3 border cities reported in the state tuberculosis registry, SINAN, from 2010–2018 (red line), and the proportion of yearly notified cases sampled (blue bars) in this study, January 2014–April 2017.

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1These authors contributed equally to this article.

2These authors contributed equally to this article.

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