The Guinea-Bissau Family of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Complex Revisited

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  Groenheit, Ramona ^a,b   Ghebremichael, Solomon ^a   Svensson, Jenny ^a   Rabna, Paulo ^c,d   Colombatti, Raffaella ^e,f   Riccardi, Fabio ^g   Couvin, David ^h   Hill, Véronique ^h   Rastogi, Nalin ^h   Koivula, Tuija ^a,b   Källenius, Gunilla ^b  

^a SWEDISH INSTITUTE FOR INFECTIOUS DISEASE CONTROL   (Sweden)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^c Lab Nac de Saude Pub   (Guinea-Bissau)

^d Studies of the Epidemiology of Epilepsy in Demographic Surveillance Systems   (Guinea-Bissau)

^e Hospital Raoul Follereau   (Guinea-Bissau)

^f UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^g UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

^h Institut Pasteur de Guadeloupe   (Guadeloupe)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BIOTYPE; CAMEROON; CHINA; CLADISTICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE INSERTION; GENETIC TRAIT; GUINEA-BISSAU; INDIA; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SOUTH AND CENTRAL AMERICA; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; CLASSIFICATION; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS COMPLEX;

PRIMER DNA;

BASE SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; GENOTYPE; GUINEA-BISSAU; HUMANS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH;

EID: 79955407439     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0018601     Document Type: Article

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