Mycobacterium africanum (Lineage 6) shows slower sputum smear conversion on tuberculosis treatment than Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Lineage 4) in Bamako, Mali

OBJECTIVE: Ancestral M. tuberculosis complex lineages such as M. africanum are underrepresented among retreatment patients and those with drug resistance. To test the hypothesis that they respond faster to TB treatment, we determined the rate of smear conversion of new pulmonary tuberculosis patient...

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Auteurs principaux: Diarra, Bassirou, Kone, Mahamadou, Togo, Antieme Combo Georges, Sarro, Yeya dit Sadio, Cisse, Aissata Boubakar, Somboro, Amadou, Degoga, Boureima, Tolofoudie, Mohamed, Kone, Bourahima, Sanogo, Moumine, Baya, Bocar, Kodio, Ousmane, Maiga, Mamoudou, Belson, Michael, Orsega, Susan, Krit, Meryam, Dao, Sounkalo, Maiga, Ibrahim Izétiegouma, Murphy, Robert L., Rigouts, Leen, Doumbia, Seydou, Diallo, Souleymane, de Jong, Bouke Catherine
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Langue:Inglês
Publié: Public Library of Science 2018
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Accès en ligne:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6291124/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30540823
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0208603
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