Immunogenic Mycobacterium africanum Strains Associated with Ongoing Transmission in The Gambia

In West Africa, Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains co-circulate with M. africanum, and both pathogens cause pulmonary tuberculosis in humans. Given recent findings that M. tuberculosis T-cell epitopes are hyperconserved, we hypothesized that more immunogenic strains have increased capacity to spread...

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Autores principales: Gehre, Florian, Antonio, Martin, Otu, Jacob K., Sallah, Neneh, Secka, Oumie, Faal, Tutty, Owiafe, Patrick, Sutherland, Jayne S., Adetifa, Ifedayo M., Ota, Martin O., Kampmann, Beate, Corrah, Tumani, de Jong, Bouke C.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2013
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Research
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3810728/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24050158
http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid1910.121023

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3810728/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24050158
http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid1910.121023

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