Article
First molecular epidemiological study of tuberculosis in Benin.
The international journal of tuberculosis and lung disease : the official journal of the International Union against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease - 1 Mar 2009
Affolabi D, Anyo G, Faïhun F, Sanoussi N, Shamputa I C, Rigouts L, Kestens L, Anagonou S, Portaels F
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVES: To assess the diversity of Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains in Cotonou, Benin, and the risk factors associated with clustering. METHODS: We analysed one sputum sample from 194 consecutive new pulmonary tuberculosis (TB) cases using two genotyping methods: spoligotyping and the 12 loci mycobacterial interspersed repetitive unit-variable number of tandem repeats (MIRU-VNTR). The data obtained were...
Topics
- Bacterial Typing Techniques
- Benin
- DNA Fingerprinting
- DNA, Bacterial
- Female
- Genetic Variation
- Humans
- Interspersed Repetitive Sequences
- Male
- Minisatellite Repeats