| [new era in molecular epidemiology of tuberculosis in japan]. | molecular epidemiology of tuberculosis (tb) is a science to study tb transmission dynamics and to enhance our understanding of the epidemiology of tb by utilizing molecular typing methods as an adjunct to classical epidemiological approach. before the era of molecular epidemiology, it was quite difficult to ascertain the source of the infections since m. tuberculosis is spread by air-borne droplets of respiratory secretions expelled by an infectious person to a susceptible host and it can remain ... | 2006 | 17154049 |