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- Long-term care facilities (LTCFs) in the US faced significant challenges during the COVID-19 pandemic, with high rates of illness and death among residents and staff.
- A study in Fulton County, Georgia, analyzed SARS-CoV-2 transmission in 60 LTCFs from March 2020 to September 2021, revealing that vaccination efforts led to a rapid decrease in case counts and outbreak duration after vaccines were introduced in December 2020.
- The findings indicated that staff cases were more infectious than those of residents, supporting the idea that staff played a crucial role in spreading the virus within LTCFs, although the impact of vaccinated cases on transmission remains uncertain.
Background: Recent evidence suggests transmission of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) may be characterized by extreme individual heterogeneity in secondary cases (i.e., few cases account for the majority of transmission).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFTransmission of Extensively Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis in South Africa.
N Engl J Med
January 2017
From the Emory University Rollins School of Public Health and School of Medicine (N.S.S., S.C.A., S.A., A.C., N.R.G.) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (N.S.S.) - both in Atlanta; Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Montefiore Medical Center (N.S.S., J.C.M.B., N.R.G.), Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health (B.M., T.S.B.), and the American Museum of Natural History (A.N.) - all in New York; the National Institute for Communicable Diseases, Johannesburg (N.I., H.M., S.V.O.), University of KwaZulu-Natal and National Health Laboratory Service, Durban (P. Moodley, K.M., T.M., P. Mpangase), and the South African Medical Research Council, Cape Town (N.M., T.K.) - all in South Africa; and the Public Health Research Institute, New Jersey Medical School-Rutgers University, Newark (E.S., B.K.).
Background: Drug-resistant tuberculosis threatens recent gains in the treatment of tuberculosis and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection worldwide. A widespread epidemic of extensively drug-resistant (XDR) tuberculosis is occurring in South Africa, where cases have increased substantially since 2002. The factors driving this rapid increase have not been fully elucidated, but such knowledge is needed to guide public health interventions.
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