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SUBMITTER: Asante-Poku A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4287525 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Asante-Poku Adwoa A Yeboah-Manu Dorothy D Otchere Isaac Darko ID Aboagye Samuel Y SY Stucki David D Hattendorf Jan J Borrell Sonia S Feldmann Julia J Danso Emelia E Gagneux Sebastien S
PLoS neglected tropical diseases 20150108 1
Mycobacterium africanum is a member of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex (MTBC) and an important cause of human tuberculosis in West Africa that is rarely observed elsewhere. Here we genotyped 613 MTBC clinical isolates from Ghana, and searched for associations between the different phylogenetic lineages of MTBC and patient variables. We found that 17.1% (105/613) of the MTBC isolates belonged to M. africanum, with the remaining belonging to M. tuberculosis sensu stricto. No M. bovis was id ...[more]