Spatiotemporal analysis of drug-resistant TB patients registered in selected districts of Karnataka, South India: a cross-sectional study

Spatiotemporal analysis of drug-resistant TB patients registered in selected districts of Karnataka, South India: a cross-sectional study

Abstract Background Tuberculosis (TB) depicts heterogeneous spatial patterns with geographical aggregation of TB cases due to either ongoing person-to-person transmission or reactivation of latent infection in a community sharing risk factor. In this regard, we aimed to assess the spatiotemporal agg...

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Main Authors: Basavaraj Poojar, K. Ashok Shenoy, Poonam R. Naik, Ashwin Kamath, Jaya Prasad Tripathy, P. Prasanna Mithra, Mukta N. Chowta, M. N. Badarudeen, Narasimhaswamy Nagalakshmi, Vivek Sharma, Amrita N. Shamanewadi, Pruthu Thekkur
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2020-03-01
Series:Tropical Medicine and Health
Subjects:
Spatial heterogeneity
Drug-resistant tuberculosis
GIS
Spatial analysis
Geographic mapping
Spatial epidemiology
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s41182-020-00199-7

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