New Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex sublineage, Brazzaville, Congo

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2017, Pages 423-429

  Malm, Sven ^a   Ghoma Linguissi, Laure S ^b,c   Tekwu, Emmanuel M ^d,e   Vouvoungui, Jeannhey C ^b,c   Kohl, Thomas A ^a   Beckert, Patrick ^a   Sidibe, Anissa ^b,c   Rüsch Gerdes, Sabine ^a   Madzou Laboum, Igor K ^f   Kwedi, Sylvie ^b   Beng, Véronique Penlap ^c,d   Frank, Matthias ^e,g   Ntoumi, Francine ^b,c,e   Niemann, Stefan ^a,h  

^a RESEARCH CENTER BORSTEL   (Germany)

^b Fondation Congolaise Pour la Recherche Medicale   (Congo)

^c UNIVERSITÉ MARIEN NGOUABI   (Congo)

^d UNIVERSITY OF YAOUNDÉ I   (Cameroon)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^f Centre Antituberculeux de Brazzaville Programme de Lutte Contre la Tuberculose   (Congo)

^g German Centre for Diabetes Research   (Germany)

^h German Center for Infection Research   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONGO; GENE MUTATION; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS COMPLEX; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; UGANDA; WHOLE GENOME SEQUENCING; ADULT; CLASSIFICATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PHYLOGENY; TUBERCULOSIS; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONGO; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PHYLOGENY; TUBERCULOSIS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 85013347604     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid2303.160679     Document Type: Article

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