Exportation of MDR TB to Europe from Setting with Actively Transmitted Persistent Strains in Peru
Fermín Acosta, Juan Agapito, Andrea Maurizio Cabibbe, Tatiana Cáceres, Christophe Sola, Laura Pérez‐Lago, Estefanía Abascal, Marta Herránz, et al. (17 authors)
Emerging infectious diseases · 2019-01
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
- Exportation
- Transmission (telecommunications)
- Tuberculosis
- Molecular epidemiology
- Epidemiology
- Multiple drug resistance
- Geography
- Environmental health
- Virology
- Medicine
- Biology