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SUBMITTER: Asare P
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6069673 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Asare Prince P Asante-Poku Adwoa A Prah Diana Ahu DA Borrell Sonia S Osei-Wusu Stephen S Otchere Isaac Darko ID Forson Audrey A Adjapong Gloria G Koram Kwadwo Ansah KA Gagneux Sebastien S Yeboah-Manu Dorothy D
International journal of infectious diseases : IJID : official publication of the International Society for Infectious Diseases 20180604
<h4>Objective</h4>Understanding transmission dynamics is useful for tuberculosis (TB) control. A population-based molecular epidemiological study was conducted to determine TB transmission in Ghana.<h4>Methods</h4>Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex (MTBC) isolates obtained from prospectively sampled pulmonary TB patients between July 2012 and December 2015 were characterized using spoligotyping and standard 15-locus mycobacterial interspersed repetitive unit variable number tandem repeat (MIRU-V ...[more]