Population structure among mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates from pulmonary tuberculosis patients in Colombia.

Population structure among mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates from pulmonary tuberculosis patients in Colombia.

BACKGROUND: Phylogeographic composition of M. tuberculosis populations reveals associations between lineages and human populations that might have implications for the development of strategies to control the disease. In Latin America, lineage 4 or the Euro-American, is predominant with considerable...

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Main Authors: Teresa Realpe, Nidia Correa, Juan Carlos Rozo, Beatriz Eugenia Ferro, Verónica Gomez, Elsa Zapata, Wellman Ribon, Gloria Puerto, Claudia Castro, Luisa María Nieto, Maria Lilia Diaz, Oriana Rivera, David Couvin, Nalin Rastogi, Maria Patricia Arbelaez, Jaime Robledo
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3991582?pdf=render

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