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A description of lineage 1 Mycobacterium tuberculosis from papua, Indonesia.
Tuberculosis (Edinburgh, Scotland) - 1 Dec 2024
Djunaedy Hanif A K, Febinia Clarissa A, Hamers Raph L, Baird Kevin, Elyazar Iqbal, Thuong Nguyen Thuy Thuong, Trimarsanto Hidayat, Malik Safarina G, Thwaites Guy, van Crevel Reinout, Alisjahbana Bachti, Chaidir Lidya, Ashton Philip M
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Indonesia has the third highest number of tuberculosis (TB) patients infected with Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) Lineage 1 (L1). Most of these MTB L1 cases can be found in Indonesia's remote easternmost province of Papua, one of Indonesia's most underdeveloped provinces with a particularly high burden for TB. In this study, we sequenced and described 42 MTB L1 isolates from a well-characterized cohort of...
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