The role of speciation in positive Lowenstein-Jensen culture isolates from a high tuberculosis burden country

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 11, 2011, Pages

  Worodria, William ^a,b,c   Anderson, Jillian ^d   Cattamanchi, Adithya ^c,d   Davis, J Lucian ^c,d   den Boon, Saskia ^c   Andama, Alfred ^a,b,c   Yoo, Samuel D ^a,b,c   Joloba, Moses ^c   Huang, Laurence ^c,d   Kato Maeda, Midori ^d  

^a MAKERERE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF HEALTH SCIENCES   (Uganda)

^b Mulago National Referral and Teaching Hospital   (Uganda)

^c MAKERERE UNIVERSITY   (Uganda)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTINOBACTERIA; ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; COUGHING; FEMALE; GENE INSERTION SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTED PATIENT; JANIBACTER; LOWENSTEIN JENSEN CULTURE; LUNG LAVAGE; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROCOCCUS LUTEUS; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; NONTUBERCULOUS MYCOBACTERIA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RPOB GENE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; SPUTUM CULTURE; UGANDA; AIDS RELATED COMPLEX; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE;

CORYNEBACTERINEAE; JANIBACTER; MICROCOCCUS LUTEUS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS COMPLEX;

PRIMER DNA;

ADULT; AIDS-RELATED OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTIONS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TUBERCULOSIS, PULMONARY; UGANDA;

EID: 80455145153     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0027017     Document Type: Article

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