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Clinical presentation and outcome of tuberculosis patients infected by M. africanum versus M. tuberculosis.

The international journal of tuberculosis and lung disease : the official journal of the International Union against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease - 1 Apr 2007

de Jong B C, Hill P C, Aiken A, Jeffries D J, Onipede A, Small P M, Adegbola R A, Corrah T P

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SETTING: A tuberculosis (TB) case contact study in the Gambia. OBJECTIVE: To test whether Mycobacterium africanum, which has lost around 68 kb compared with M. tuberculosis sensu stricto, causes less severe TB disease. DESIGN: We genotyped mycobacterial isolates and compared clinical and radiolog...

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