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Volume 28, Number 9—September 2022
Research Letter

Molecular Epidemiology of Blastomyces gilchristii Clusters, Minnesota, USA

Ujwal R. Bagal, Malia Ireland, Annastasia Gross, Jill Fischer, Meghan Bentz, Elizabeth L. Berkow, Anastasia P. Litvintseva, and Nancy A. ChowComments to Author 
Author affiliations: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA (U.R. Bagal, M. Bentz, E.L. Berkow, A.P. Litvintseva, N.A. Chow); Minnesota Department of Health, St. Paul, Minnesota, USA (M. Ireland, A. Gross, J. Fischer)

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Demographic and clinical data used for molecular epidemiology of 2 Blastomyces gilchristii clusters, Minnesota, USA*

Sample no.
 Age, y/sex
 Race/ethnicity
 Cluster
 Family relationship
 Diagnosis location
 Exposure location†
 Clinical specimen
Specimen collection date
B19405 15/F White Hispanic A Sister MN WI Sputum 2020 Aug 23
B19406 27/M White Hispanic A Brother MN WI Sputum 2020 Aug 19
B19407 3/F White non-Hispanic B Daughter MN MN Bronchial washing 2020 Jul 25
B19408 38/M White non-Hispanic B Father MN MN Subcutaneous abscess 2014 Dec 16

*Data for 2 isolates per cluster that underwent whole-genome sequencing and single-nucleotide polymorphism analyses. †Likely exposure location on the basis of interviews with family members.

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