Mycobacterium africanum Is Associated with Patient Ethnicity in Ghana

Mycobacterium africanum is a member of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex (MTBC) and an important cause of human tuberculosis in West Africa that is rarely observed elsewhere. Here we genotyped 613 MTBC clinical isolates from Ghana, and searched for associations between the different phylogenet...

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Main Authors: Asante-Poku, Adwoa, Yeboah-Manu, Dorothy, Otchere, Isaac Darko, Aboagye, Samuel Y., Stucki, David, Hattendorf, Jan, Borrell, Sonia, Feldmann, Julia, Danso, Emelia, Gagneux, Sebastien
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science 2015
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4287525/