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Mycobacterial lineages causing pulmonary and extrapulmonary Tuberculosis, Ethiopia

Emerging Infectious Diseases, Volume 19, No. 3, Year 2013

Molecular typing of 964 specimens from patients in Ethiopia with lymph node or pulmonary tuberculosis showed a similar distribution of Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains between the 2 disease manifestations and a minimal role for M. bovis. We report a novel phylogenetic lineage of M. tuberculosis strongly associated with the Horn of Africa.

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Ethiopia