Article
Tuberculous Lymphadenitis in Ethiopia Predominantly Caused by Strains Belonging to the Delhi/CAS Lineage and Newly Identified Ethiopian Clades of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis Complex.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2015
Biadglegne Fantahun, Merker Matthias, Sack Ulrich, Rodloff Arne C, Niemann Stefan
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Recently, newly defined clades of Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex (MTBC) strains, namely Ethiopia 1-3 and Ethiopia H37Rv-like strains, and other clades associated with pulmonary TB (PTB) were identified in Ethiopia. In this study, we investigated whether these new strain types exhi...
Topics
- Adolescent
- Adult
- Bacterial Typing Techniques
- Child
- Child, Preschool
- DNA, Bacterial
- Ethiopia
- Female
- Genetic Variation
- Genotype
- Humans
- Infant