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Molecular typing of mycobacteria isolated from extrapulmonary tuberculosis patients at Debre Birhan Referral Hospital, central Ethiopia.
Scandinavian journal of infectious diseases - 1 Jul 2013
Garedew Legesse, Mihret Adane, Ameni Gobena
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Extrapulmonary tuberculosis (EPTB) constitutes about 10% to 20% of all cases of tuberculosis in immunocompetent patients and more than 50% of the cases in HIV-positive individuals worldwide. Little information is available on the clonal diversity of Mycobacterium species in Ethiopia from EPTB. METHODS: This study was carried out on smear-negative EPTB patients to molecularly characterize Mycobacterium...
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