Aerosol Sampling Outperforms Sputum to Predict Mycobacterium tuberculosis Transmission

Affiliations

• ¹ Section of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
• ² Department of Public Health, Section of Infectious Diseases, Lemuel Shattuck Hospital, Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, USA.
• ³ Pulmonary Branch, Division of Intramural Research, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA.
• ⁴ Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Keck School of Medicine of USC, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CaliforniaUSA.