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Cluster (TB)

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Group of persons with tuberculosis that are linked by epidemiological or genotyping data.

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Group of patients with LTBI or TB disease that are linked by epidemiologic, location, or genotyping data. Two or more TST conversions within a short period can be a cluster of TB disease and might suggest transmission within the setting. A genotyping cluster is two or more cases with isolates that have an identical genotyping pattern

From: CDC

Year: 2005

Source: Guidelines for Preventing the Transmission of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in Health-Care Settings, 2005

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