{"id":4387,"date":"2015-10-22T15:26:17","date_gmt":"2015-10-22T19:26:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=4387"},"modified":"2015-10-23T15:47:42","modified_gmt":"2015-10-23T19:47:42","slug":"quebecs-tb-troubles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/quebecs-tb-troubles\/","title":{"rendered":"Quebec&#8217;s TB troubles<img src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/canada_flag_icon_small.gif\">"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/SMCC-english2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-110\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/SMCC-english2.jpg\" alt=\"SMCC-english2\" width=\"255\" height=\"126\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Qu\u00e9bec\u2019s unusually high rate of tuberculosis (TB) is most likely due to the local environment and cultural practices, rather than a particularly potent strain of TB, according to researchers. Qu\u00e9bec has an incidence rate 50 times higher than the Canadian average. <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Researchers performed whole-genome sequencing on 163 TB samples from 11 geographically isolated villages in Northern Qu\u00e9bec. The results suggest social and environmental factors may contribute to the ongoing TB epidemic in Qu\u00e9bec, according to the authors. <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pnas.org\/content\/early\/2015\/10\/14\/1507071112\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Original research paper<\/span><\/a>\u00a0published in <em>PNAS\u00a0<\/em>on <strong>October 20<\/strong><span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_453723367\"><span class=\"aQJ\"><strong>, 2015<\/strong>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><strong>Names and affiliations of selected\u00a0author<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<h4><strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Marcel A. Behr, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec<\/span><\/strong><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Qu\u00e9bec\u2019s unusually high rate of tuberculosis (TB) is most likely due to the local environment and cultural practices, rather than a particularly potent strain of TB, according to researchers. Qu\u00e9bec has an incidence rate 50 times higher than the Canadian average. Researchers performed whole-genome sequencing on 163 TB samples from 11 geographically isolated villages in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[215,51,476,849],"class_list":["post-4387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-environment","tag-health","tag-public-health","tag-quebec-en"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-18L","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4387"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4405,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4387\/revisions\/4405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}