Skip directly to site content Skip directly to page options Skip directly to A-Z link Skip directly to A-Z link Skip directly to A-Z link
Volume 29, Number 5—May 2023
Research

Use of High-Resolution Geospatial and Genomic Data to Characterize Recent Tuberculosis Transmission, Botswana

Chelsea R. Baker1, Ivan Barilar1, Leonardo S. de Araujo, Anne W. Rimoin, Daniel M. Parker, Rosanna Boyd, James L. Tobias, Patrick K. Moonan, Eleanor S. Click, Alyssa Finlay, John E. Oeltmann, Vladimir N. Minin, Chawangwa Modongo, Nicola M. Zetola2, Stefan Niemann2, and Sanghyuk S. Shin2Comments to Author 
Author affiliations: University of California, Irvine, California, USA (C.R. Baker, D.M. Parker, V.N. Minin, S.S. Shin); Forschungszentrum, Borstel, Germany (I. Barilar, L.S. de Araujo, S. Niemann); University of California, Los Angeles, California, USA (A.W. Rimoin); US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Gaborone, Botswana (R. Boyd, A. Finlay); US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA (J.L. Tobias, P.K. Moonan, R. Boyd, E.S. Click, A. Finlay, J.E. Oeltmann); Botswana–UPenn Partnership, Gaborone (C. Modongo, N.M. Zetola); Victus Global Botswana Organisation, Gaborone (C. Modongo, N.M. Zetola)

Main Article

Table 2

Spatial summary for each Mycobacterium tuberculosis outbreak group (≤5 SNP) in study of high-resolution geospatial and genomic data to characterize recent tuberculosis transmission, by distance rank from reference, Gaborone, Botswana, 2012–2016

Distance rank Group Median center distance, m X span, m Y span, m Rotation, degrees
1 Group A 458 9120 10,263 28
2 Group E 1,633 9,597 5,983 134
3 Group C 3,143 12,431 4,768 111
4 Group B 3,788 6,251 9,077 15
5
 Group D
 4,979
 5,946
 8,197
 29
Referent Ungrouped Referent 11,786 9,507 103

Main Article

1These first authors contributed equally to this article.

2These senior authors contributed equally to this article.

Page created: January 18, 2023
Page updated: April 18, 2023
Page reviewed: April 18, 2023
The conclusions, findings, and opinions expressed by authors contributing to this journal do not necessarily reflect the official position of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the Public Health Service, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, or the authors' affiliated institutions. Use of trade names is for identification only and does not imply endorsement by any of the groups named above.
file_external