High genetic diversity among Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex strains from Sierra Leone.

Homolka, Susanne; Post, Erik; Oberhauser, Barbara; George, Abu Garawani; Westman, Lars; Dafae, Foday; Rüsch-Gerdes, Sabine; Niemann, Stefan

Homolka, Susanne; Post, Erik; Oberhauser, Barbara; George, Abu Garawani; Westman, Lars; Dafae, Foday; Rüsch-Gerdes, Sabine; Niemann, Stefan.

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Homolka S; National Reference Center for Mycobacteria, Research Center Borstel, Borstel, Germany. shomolka@fz-borstel.de

BMC Microbiol ; 8: 103, 2008 Jun 25.

Article in En | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-18578864

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Genetic Variation; Mycobacterium/classification; Mycobacterium/isolation & purification; Tuberculosis, Multidrug-Resistant/microbiology; Tuberculosis, Pulmonary/microbiology; Antitubercular Agents/pharmacology; DNA Fingerprinting; DNA, Intergenic/genetics; Drug Resistance, Multiple, Bacterial; Humans; Minisatellite Repeats; Mycobacterium/drug effects; Mycobacterium/genetics; Retrospective Studies; Sierra Leone/epidemiology; Tuberculosis, Multidrug-Resistant/epidemiology; Tuberculosis, Pulmonary/epidemiology

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Full text: 1 Collection: 01-internacional Database: MEDLINE Main subject: Tuberculosis, Pulmonary / Genetic Variation / Tuberculosis, Multidrug-Resistant / Mycobacterium Type of study: Observational_studies / Risk_factors_studies Limits: Humans Country/Region as subject: Africa Language: En Journal: BMC Microbiol Journal subject: MICROBIOLOGIA Year: 2008 Document type: Article Affiliation country: Germany

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