Estimating Mycobacterium tuberculosis transmission in a South African clinic: Spatiotemporal model based on person movements.

The risk of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) transmission can be high in crowded clinics. We developed a spatiotemporal model of airborne Mtb transmission based on the Wells-Riley equation. We collected environmental, clinical and person-tracking data in a South African clinic during COVID-19, when...

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Main Authors: Nicolas Banholzer, Keren Middelkoop, Juane Leukes, Ernest Weingartner, Remo Schmutz, Kathrin Zürcher, Matthias Egger, Robin Wood, Lukas Fenner
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2025-02-01
Series:PLoS Computational Biology
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1012823
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