Emerging Infectious Diseases (Mar 2013)

Mycobacterial Lineages Causing Pulmonary and Extrapulmonary Tuberculosis, Ethiopia

  • Rebuma Firdessa,
  • Stefan Berg,
  • Elena Hailu,
  • Esther Schelling,
  • Balako Gumi,
  • Girume Erenso,
  • Endalamaw Gadisa,
  • Teklu Kiros,
  • Meseret Habtamu,
  • Jemal Hussein,
  • Jakob Zinsstag,
  • Brian D. Robertson,
  • Gobena Ameni,
  • Amanda J. Lohan,
  • Brendan Loftus,
  • Iñaki Comas,
  • Sebastien Gagneux,
  • Rea Tschopp,
  • Lawrence Yamuah,
  • Glyn Hewinson,
  • Stephen V. Gordon,
  • Douglas B. Young,
  • Abraham Aseffa

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid1903.120256
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 19, no. 3
pp. 460 – 463

Abstract

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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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