The Guinea-Bissau family of Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex revisited.

The Guinea-Bissau family of strains is a unique group of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex that, although genotypically closely related, phenotypically demonstrates considerable heterogeneity. We have investigated 414 M. tuberculosis complex strains collected in Guinea-Bissau between 1989 and 2...

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Main Authors: Ramona Groenheit, Solomon Ghebremichael, Jenny Svensson, Paulo Rabna, Raffaella Colombatti, Fabio Riccardi, David Couvin, Véronique Hill, Nalin Rastogi, Tuija Koivula, Gunilla Källenius
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-04-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3080393?pdf=render