Emerging Infectious Diseases (Mar 2019)

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 Herranz,
  • Erika Meza,
  • Bernice Klotoe,
  • Patricia Muñoz,
  • Gian María Rossolini,
  • Alessandro Bartoloni,
  • Enrico Tortoli,
  • Daniela María Cirillo,
  • Eduardo Gotuzzo,
  • Darío García de Viedma

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid2503.180574
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 25, no. 3
pp. 596 – 598

Abstract

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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.

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