Two cases of sternal osteomyelitis due to Mycobacterium africanum: a casual or causal association
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Mycobacterium africanum cases, California.
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.
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عنوان ژورنال: International Journal of Mycobacteriology
سال: 2016
ISSN: 2212-5531
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijmyco.2016.05.006