Article
Molecular epidemiology and transmission dynamics of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in Northwest Ethiopia: new phylogenetic lineages found in Northwest Ethiopia.
BMC infectious diseases - 11 Mar 2013
Tessema Belay, Beer Joerg, Merker Matthias, Emmrich Frank, Sack Ulrich, Rodloff Arne C, Niemann Stefan
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Although Ethiopia ranks seventh among the world's 22 high-burden tuberculosis (TB) countries, little is known about strain diversity and transmission. In this study, we present the first in-depth analysis of the population structure and transmission dynamics of Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains from Northwest Ethiopia. METHODS: In the present study, 244 M. tuberculosis isolates where analysed by...
Topics
- Adult
- Antitubercular Agents
- Cluster Analysis
- Drug Resistance, Bacterial
- Ethiopia
- Female
- Genotype
- Humans
- Male
- Microbial Sensitivity Tests
- Middle Aged