The Importance of Heterogeneity to the Epidemiology of Tuberculosis

James M Trauer 1, Peter J Dodd 2, M Gabriela M Gomes 3,4, Gabriela B Gomez 5, Rein MGJ Houben 6,7, Emma S McBryde 8, Yayehirad A Melsew 1, Nicolas A Menzies 9, Nimalan Arinaminpathy 10, Sourya Shrestha 11, David W Dowdy 11The Importance of Heterogeneity to the Epidemiology of Tuberculosis. Clinical infectious diseases https://doi.org/10.1186/s12879-018-3388-y


Abstract

 

1.School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Australia

  1. Health Economic and Decision Science, the University of Sheffield, UK
  2. Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, United Kingdom
  3. CIBIO-InBIO, Centro de InvestigaÁ„o em Biodiversidade e Recursos GenÈticos, Universidade do Porto, Portugal
  4. Department of Global Health and Development, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK
  5. TB Centre, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK
  6. Infectious Disease Epidemiology Department, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK
  7. Australian Institute of Tropical Health and Medicine, James Cook University, Townsville, Australia
  8. Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, USA
  9. Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, UK
  10. Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA