Investigation of the high rates of extrapulmonary tuberculosis in Ethiopia reveals no single driving factor and minimal evidence for zoonotic transmission of Mycobacterium bovis infection

BACKGROUND: Ethiopia, a high tuberculosis (TB) burden country, reports one of the highest incidence rates of extra-pulmonary TB dominated by cervical lymphadenitis (TBLN). Infection with Mycobacterium bovis has previously been excluded as the main reason for the high rate of extrapulmonary TB in Eth...

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Autores principales: Berg, Stefan, Schelling, Esther, Hailu, Elena, Firdessa, Rebuma, Gumi, Balako, Erenso, Girume, Gadisa, Endalamaw, Mengistu, Araya, Habtamu, Meseret, Hussein, Jemal, Kiros, Teklu, Bekele, Shiferaw, Mekonnen, Wondale, Derese, Yohannes, Zinsstag, Jakob, Ameni, Gobena, Gagneux, Sebastien, Robertson, Brian D, Tschopp, Rea, Hewinson, Glyn, Yamuah, Lawrence, Gordon, Stephen V, Aseffa, Abraham
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2015
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4359574/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25886866
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12879-015-0846-7

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