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Volume 29, Number 5—May 2023
Dispatch

Limited Nosocomial Transmission of Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis, Moldova

Ecaterina Noroc1, Dumitru Chesov1, Matthias Merker1, Matthias I. Gröschel, Ivan Barilar, Viola Dreyer, Nelly Ciobanu, Maja Reimann, Valeriu Crudu, and Christoph LangeComments to Author 
Author affiliations: Chiril Draganiuc Phthisiopneumology Institute, Chisinau, Moldova (E. Noroc, N. Ciobanu, V. Crudu); Nicolae Testemitanu State University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Chisinau (D. Chesov); Research Center Borstel, Borstel, Germany (D. Chesov, M. Merker, I. Barilar, V. Dreyer, M. Reimann, C. Lange); German Center for Infection Research (DZIF), Borstel (M. Merker, I. Barilar, V. Dreyer, M. Reimann, C. Lange); Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA (M.I. Gröschel); Charité–Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany (M.I. Gröschel); University of Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany (M. Reimann, C. Lange); Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children’s Hospital, Houston, Texas, USA (C. Lange)

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Table 2

Likely nosocomial transmission events of drug-resistant TB, Moldova*

Patient with acquired MDR TB Possible index cases for transmission SNP difference Days overlap
in the hospital		 Days overlap
on the same ward		 Days overlap in the same room Strain
NOR-14 NOR-297 0 13† 0 0 2.2.1 Central Asia outbreak
NOR-285 NOR-133 3 29 27 23 4.2.1 URAL

*MDR TB, multidrug-resistant tuberculosis; SNP, single-nucleotide polymorphism; TB, tuberculosis. †Patients had already shared 52 d in the hospital before the official start of the study.

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1These first authors contributed equally to this article.

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