Article
First baseline of circulating genotypic lineages of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in patients from the brazilian borders with Argentina and Paraguay.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2014
Machado Luzia Neri C, Marcondes Nadir R, Leite Clarice Q Fijimura, Santos Adolfo C Barreto, Pavan Fernando Rogério, Baldin Vanessa Pietrowski, Castilho Aline Lemes, Siqueira Vera Lúcia D, Baeza Lilian Cristiane, Berghs Henri, Cardoso Rosilene Fressatti
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: At the triple border Brazil/Paraguay/Argentina there is easy mobility from one city to another for economic and tourism activities. This constant and fast population mobility is mainly to visit Iguazu Falls, in the Iguazu River, on the border of the Brazilian state of Paraná and the Argentina. As the incidence of tuberculosis is high in this setting, our study aimed to establish a first baseline of...
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