1. Mycobacterial Lineages Causing Pulmonary and Extrapulmonary Tuberculosis, Ethiopia.
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Firdessa, Rebuma, Berg, Stefan, Hailu, Elena, Schelling, Esther, Gumi, Balako, Erenso, Girume, Gadisa, Endalamaw, Kiros, Teklu, Habtamu, Meseret, Hussein, Jemal, Zinsstag, Jakob, Robertson, Brian D., Ameni, Gobena, Lohan, Amanda J., Loftus, Brendan, Comas, Iñaki, Gagneux, Sebastien, Tschopp, Rea, Yamuah, Lawrence, and Hewinson, Glyn
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MYCOBACTERIAL diseases ,TUBERCULOSIS research ,MYCOBACTERIUM tuberculosis ,COMMUNICABLE diseases ,EPIDEMICS - 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. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2013
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