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New paper (Gandhi): Casual Contact in Drug-Resistant TB Transmission

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April 28, 2026

New paper led by Neel Gandhi in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine: Role of Casual Contact in Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis Transmission: A Molecular Epidemiology Study. Using whole-genome sequencing of second-line drug-resistant TB in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, casual contact in community locations accounted for roughly half of transmission among genotypic clusters.

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