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Indigenous Transmission of Mycobacterium africanum in Canada: A Case Series and Cluster Analysis

Mycobacterium africanum is an important cause of human tuberculosis and is found almost exclusively in West Africa. We identified a cluster of patients in Montreal, Canada, with M africanum disease that share identical genotypic signatures by mycobacterial interspersed repetitive unit-variable numbe...

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Autores principales: Chakravarti, Arpita, Soualhine, Hafid, Sharma, Meenu, Rivest, Paul, Poirier, Louise, Lavallée, Christian
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6441568/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30949534
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofz088