Molecular typing of mycobacteria isolated from extrapulmonary tuberculosis patients at Debre Birhan Referral Hospital, central Ethiopia (original) (raw)
2013, Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases
B A C K G R O U N D : Ethiopia ranks seventh in the list of 22 high tuberculosis (TB) burden countries, with an incidence rate of 379 cases per 100 000 population for TB all forms. However, information on the genomic diversity of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in Ethiopia is limited. O B J E C T I V E : To investigate the molecular characteristics of M. tuberculosis strains implicated in pulmonary TB in the study area.
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