Mycobacterium africanum Cases, California

Abstract

Five Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex isolates in California were identified as M. africanum by spoligotyping, single nucleotide polymorphisms, a deletion mutation, and phenotypic traits, confirming it as a cause of tuberculosis in the United States. Three of the five patients from whom M. africanum was isolated had lived in Africa.

Keywords

• Mycobacterium
• Mycobacterium tuberculosis
• Epidemiology
• molecular
• Tuberculosis
• California