Exportation of MDR TB to Europe from Setting with Actively Transmitted Persistent Strains in Peru
Acosta F, Agapito J, Cabibbe AM, Cáceres T, Sola C, Pérez-Lago L, Abascal E, Herranz M, et al. (17 authors)
Emerging infectious diseases · 2019-03
Abstract
We performed a cross-border molecular epidemiology analysis of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in Peru, Spain, and Italy. This analysis revealed frequent transmission in Peru and exportation of a strain that recreated similar levels of transmission in Europe during 2007-2017. Transnational efforts are needed to control transmission of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis globally.
MeSH terms
- Humans
- Mycobacterium tuberculosis
- Tuberculosis, Multidrug-Resistant
- Emigration and Immigration
- Minisatellite Repeats
- Genotype
- Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide
- Genome, Bacterial
- Peru
- Europe
- Molecular Epidemiology
- Whole Genome Sequencing