Mycobacterium africanum is not a major cause of human tuberculosis in Cape Town, South Africa

Tuberculosis

Volumn 90, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 143-144

  Demers, Anne Marie ^a   Mostowy, Serge ^b   Coetzee, David ^c   Warren, Robin ^d   van Helden, Paul ^d   Behr, Marcel A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MONTREAL   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^d SOUTH AFRICAN MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Genomic deletions; Molecular epidemiology; Mycobacterium africanum; RFLP; Tuberculosis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; HUMAN; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM AFRICANUM; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUTH AFRICA;

EID: 77950691394     PISSN: 14729792     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tube.2010.02.004     Document Type: Article

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