Volume 8, Number 4—April 2002
Research
Sampling Bias in the Molecular Epidemiology of Tuberculosis
Megan B. Murray
Table 1
Model-based output statistics from a microsimulation of tuberculosis transmission
| Output statistics | High burden | Moderate burden | Low burden | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sudan | NY prison | Algeria | US prison | Netherlands | |
| Tuberculosis incidencea | 190 | 581 | 32 | 82 | 14 |
| Consensus incidence estimates | 200 | NAb | 44 | NAb | 10 |
| ARIc | 0.025 | 0.046 | 0.003 | 0.005 | 0.001 |
| Maximum cluster size | 87 | 19 | 9 | 17 | 15 |
| Mean cluster size | 10.2 | 3.2 | 1.7 | 2.9 | 1.7 |
| Proportion of unique isolates | 0.181 | 0.253 | 0.432 | 0.289 | 0.490 |
aIncidence per 100,000. Consensus incidence estimates are shown for comparison with estimates obtained from the model.
bNo data available.
cARI = Annual risk of infection.
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