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High genetic diversity among Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex strains from Sierra Leone

BACKGROUND: Among tuberculosis (TB) high incidence regions, Sub-Saharan Africa is particularly affected with approx. 1.6 million new cases every year. Besides this dramatic situation, data on the diversity of Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex (MTBC) strains causing this epidemic in this area are on...

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Autores principales: Homolka, Susanne, Post, Erik, Oberhauser, Barbara, George, Abu Garawani, Westman, Lars, Dafae, Foday, Rüsch-Gerdes, Sabine, Niemann, Stefan
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2008
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2447842/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18578864
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2180-8-103