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- Title
Outbreak of Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis -- Kansas, 2021-2022.
- Authors
Groenweghe, Elizabeth; Swensson, Lauren; Winans, Kimberly D.; Griffin, Phillip; Haddad, Maryam B.; Brostrom, Richard J.; Tuckey, Dawn; Chee Kin Lam; Armitige, Lisa Y.; Seaworth, Barbara J.; Corriveau, Erin A.
- Abstract
An outbreak of multidrug-resistant (MDR) tuberculosis (TB) involved 13 persons in four households in a low-income, under-resourced urban Kansas community during November 2021-November 2022. A majority of the seven adults identified in the Kansas outbreak were born outside the United States in a country that had experienced an MDR TB outbreak with the same genotype during 2007-2009, whereas most of the six children in the Kansas outbreak were U.S.-born. Prompt identification, evaluation, and treatment of persons with MDR TB and their contacts is essential to limiting transmission.
- Subjects
KANSAS; MULTIDRUG-resistant tuberculosis; EPIDEMICS; COMMUNICABLE disease epidemiology; INFECTIOUS disease transmission; COMMUNICABLE disease treatment
- Publication
MMWR: Morbidity & Mortality Weekly Report, 2023, Vol 72, Issue 35, p957
- ISSN
0149-2195
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.15585/mmwr.mm7235a4