Article
Genetic biodiversity of Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex strains from patients with pulmonary tuberculosis in Cameroon.
Journal of clinical microbiology - 1 Jun 2003
Niobe-Eyangoh Sara Ngo, Kuaban Christopher, Sorlin Philippe, Cunin Patrick, Thonnon Jocelyn, Sola Christophe, Rastogi Nalin, Vincent Veronique, Gutierrez M Cristina
Abstract excerpt
We analyzed DNA polymorphisms in 455 Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex isolates from 455 patients to evaluate the biodiversity of tubercle bacilli in Ouest province, Cameroon. The phenotypic and genotypic identification methods gave concordant results for 99.5% of M. tuberculosis isolates (413 s...
Topics
- Cameroon
- DNA Transposable Elements
- Genotype
- Humans
- Molecular Epidemiology
- Mycobacterium
- Mycobacterium tuberculosis
- Oligonucleotides
- Phenotype
- Polymerase Chain Reaction
- Polymorphism, Genetic
- Tuberculosis, Pulmonary