Immunogenic Mycobacterium africanum strains associated with ongoing transmission in the Gambia

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 19, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 1598-1604

  Gehre, Florian ^a,b   Antonio, Martin ^a   Otu, Jacob K ^a   Sallah, Neneh ^a   Secka, Oumie ^a   Faal, Tutty ^a   Owiafe, Patrick ^a   Sutherland, Jayne S ^a   Adetifa, Ifedayo M ^a   Ota, Martin O ^a   Kampmann, Beate ^a,c   Corrah, Tumani ^a   de Jong, Bouke C ^a,b,d  

^a MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL LABORATORIES   (Gambia)

^b INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Belgium)

^c IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TUBERCULIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSPOT ASSAY; GAMBIA; HUMAN; IMMUNOGENICITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MYCOBACTERIUM AFRICANUM; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN;

ELISPOT; HUMAN HOSTS; IMMUNOGENICITY; MYCOBACTERIUM AFRICANUM; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; POPULATION STRUCTURE; PPD; SHARED INTERNATIONAL TYPE; SIT; SPOLIGOTYPING; THE GAMBIA; TRANSMISSION; TUBERCULOSIS AND OTHER MYCOBACTERIA;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; GAMBIA; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; INTERFERON-GAMMA; MOLECULAR TYPING; MYCOBACTERIUM; TUBERCULOSIS, PULMONARY;

EID: 84884263674     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1910.121023     Document Type: Article

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