Article
Long-term population-based genotyping study of Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex isolates in the French departments of the Americas.
Journal of clinical microbiology - 1 Jan 2006
Brudey Karine, Filliol Ingrid, Ferdinand Séverine, Guernier Vanina, Duval Philippe, Maubert Bertrand, Sola Christophe, Rastogi Nalin
Abstract excerpt
The three French overseas departments of the Americas are characterized both by insular (Guadeloupe and Martinique) and continental (French Guiana) settings with a tuberculosis case detection rate that varies from less than 10 per 100,000 per year in insular areas to an estimated incidence of more than 55 per 100,000 in French Guiana. Under a long-term genotyping program, more than three-fourths of all the...
Topics
- Adolescent
- Adult
- Aged
- Americas
- Bacterial Typing Techniques
- Child
- Child, Preschool
- DNA, Bacterial
- Evolution, Molecular
- Female
- Genotype
- Guadeloupe
- Humans
- Infant