TY - JOUR AU - Abascal, Estefanía AU - Pérez-Lago, Laura AU - Martínez-Lirola, Miguel AU - Chiner-Oms, Álvaro AU - Herranz, Marta AU - Chaoui, Imane AU - Comas, Iñaki AU - El Messaoudi, My Driss AU - Cárdenas, José Antonio Garrido AU - Santantón, Sheila AU - Bouza, Emilio AU - García-de-Viedma, Darío PY - 2019 DO - 10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2019.24.4.1800005 UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10668/13484 T2 - Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin AB - BackgroundThe analysis of transmission of tuberculosis (TB) is challenging in areas with a large migrant population. Standard genotyping may fail to differentiate transmission within the host country from new importations, which is key from an... LA - en KW - TB KW - WGS KW - cross-border surveillance KW - immigration KW - importation KW - migrants KW - molecular epidemiology KW - surveillance KW - transmission KW - tuberculosis KW - whole genome sequencing KW - Bacterial Typing Techniques KW - Emigration and Immigration KW - Humans KW - Minisatellite Repeats KW - Molecular Epidemiology KW - Multilocus Sequence Typing KW - Mycobacterium tuberculosis KW - Polymerase Chain Reaction KW - Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide KW - Retrospective Studies KW - Sentinel Surveillance KW - Spain KW - Transients and Migrants KW - Tuberculosis KW - Whole Genome Sequencing TI - Whole genome sequencing-based analysis of tuberculosis (TB) in migrants: rapid tools for cross-border surveillance and to distinguish between recent transmission in the host country and new importations. TY - research article VL - 24 ER -