Molecular epidemiology and transmission dynamics of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in Northwest Ethiopia: New phylogenetic lineages found in Northwest Ethiopia

BMC Infectious Diseases

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Tessema, Belay ^a,b,d   Beer, Joerg ^b   Merker, Matthias ^c   Emmrich, Frank ^b,d   Sack, Ulrich ^b,d   Rodloff, Arne C ^b   Niemann, Stefan ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GONDAR   (Ethiopia)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^c RESEARCH CENTER BORSTEL   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Molecular epidemiology; Mycobacterium tuberculosis; Transmission dynamics

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA FINGERPRINTING; ETHIOPIA; FEMALE; GENE CLUSTER; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; INTERSPERSED REPEAT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; MOLECULAR TYPING; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; POPULATION GENETIC STRUCTURE; TANDEM REPEAT;

ADULT; ANTITUBERCULAR AGENTS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; ETHIOPIA; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MALE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MOLECULAR TYPING; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PHYLOGENY; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 84874743240     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2334-13-131     Document Type: Article

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