Article
Admixed phylogenetic distribution of drug resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis in Saudi Arabia.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2013
Varghese Bright, Supply Philip, Allix-Béguec Caroline, Shoukri Mohammed, Al-Omari Ruba, Herbawi Mais, Al-Hajoj Sahal
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: The phylogeographical structure of Mycobacterium tuberculosis is generally bimodal in low tuberculosis (TB) incidence countries, where genetic lineages of the isolates generally differ with little strain clustering between autochthonous and foreign-born TB patients. However, less is k...
Topics
- DNA, Intergenic
- Drug Resistance, Bacterial
- Emigration and Immigration
- Genotype
- Humans
- Minisatellite Repeats
- Mycobacterium tuberculosis
- Oligonucleotides
- Phylogeny
- Phylogeography
- Saudi Arabia
- Species Specificity
- Travel Medicine
- Tuberculosis