Use of genotyping based clustering to quantify recent tuberculosis transmission among culture positive cases in Guadeloupe between 1999 and 2005: analysis of risk factors and access to health care
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1 Observatoire Régional de la Santé de la Guadeloupe, Basse-Terre, Guadeloupe, France 2 WHO Supranational TB Reference Laboratory, Institut Pasteur de la Guadeloupe, Abymes, Guadeloupe, France 3 Direction des Actions de Solidarité Départementale, Conseil Général de la Guadeloupe, Basse Terre, Guadeloupe, France 4 CIRE Antilles-Guyane –InVS, Gourbeyre, Guadeloupe, France 5 CIRE Antilles-Guyane –InVS, Fort de France, Martinique, France
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