The First Phylogeographic Population Structure and Analysis of Transmission Dynamics of M. africanum West African 1- Combining Molecular Data from Benin, Nigeria and Sierra Leone

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 10, 2013, Pages

  Gehre, Florian ^a,b   Antonio, Martin ^a   Faïhun, Frank ^d   Odoun, Mathieu ^d   Uwizeye, Cecile ^b   de Rijk, Pim ^b   de Jong, Bouke C ^a,b,c   Affolabi, Dissou ^d  

^a Medical Research Council (MRC) Unit The Gambia   (Gambia)

^b INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Belgium)

^c NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Laboratoire de Référence des Mycobactéries   (Benin)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BENIN; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; MYCOBACTERIUM AFRICANUM; MYCOBACTERIUM AFRICANUM WEST AFRICAN 1; MYCOBACTERIUM AFRICANUM WEST AFRICAN 2; NIGERIA; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; POPULATION STRUCTURE; PREVALENCE; SIERRA LEONE; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

BENIN; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, INFECTIOUS; GENOTYPING TECHNIQUES; HUMANS; MYCOBACTERIUM; NIGERIA; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; SIERRA LEONE;

EID: 84885450674     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0077000     Document Type: Article

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