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Indigenous Transmission of Mycobacterium africanum in Canada: A Case Series and Cluster Analysis.
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SUBMITTER: Chakravarti A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6441568 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
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Indigenous Transmission of <i>Mycobacterium africanum</i> in Canada: A Case Series and Cluster Analysis.
Open forum infectious diseases 20190307 4
<i>Mycobacterium africanum</i> is an important cause of human tuberculosis and is found almost exclusively in West Africa. We identified a cluster of patients in Montreal, Canada, with <i>M africanum</i> disease that share identical genotypic signatures by mycobacterial interspersed repetitive unit-variable number tandem repeat (MIRU-VNTR) typing and a putative epidemiological link, thus providing evidence of possible local transmission of <i>M africanum</i> in Montreal over a 10-year period. ...[more]