Mycobacterial lineages causing pulmonary and extrapulmonary tuberculosis, Ethiopia.

ABSTRACT: Molecular typing of 964 specimens from patients in Ethiopia with lymph node or pulmonary tuberculosis showed a similar distribution of Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains between the 2 disease manifestations and a minimal role for M. bovis. We report a novel phylogenetic lineage of M. tuberculosis strongly associated with the Horn of Africa.

SUBMITTER: Firdessa R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3647644 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature