Global Distribution of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Spoligotypes

Filliol, Ingrid; Driscoll, Jeffrey; van Soolingen, Dick; N. Kreiswirth, Barry; Kremer, Kristin; Valétudie, Georges; Đức Anh, Đặng; Barlow, Rachael; K. Banerjee, Dilip; Bifani, Pablo; Brudey, Karin; Cataldi, Angel; C. Cooksey, Robert; Cousins, Debby; W. Dale, Jeremy; Antônio Dellagostin, Odir; Drobniewski, Francis; Engelmann, Guido; Ferdinand, Séverine; Gascoyne‐Binzi, Deborah; Gordon, Max; Cristina Gutiérrez, M.; Haas, Walter; Heersma, Herre; Källenius, Gunilla; Kassa-Kelembho, Eric; Koivula, Tuija; Minh Ly, Ho; Makristathis, Athanasios; Mammina, Caterina; Martin, Gerald; Moström, Peter; Mokrousov, Igor; Narbonne, Valérie; Narvskaya, Olga; Nastasi, Antonino; Ngo Niobe-Eyangoh, Sara; W. Pape, Jean; Rasolofo-Razanamparany, Voahangy; Ridell, Malin; Lúcia Rosa Rossetti, Maria; Stauffer, Fritz; Noël Suffys, Philip; Takiff, Howard; Texier-Maugein, J.; Vincent, Véronique; H. de Waard, Jacobus; Sola, Christophe; Rastogi, Nalin

doi:10.3201/eid0811.020125

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Global Distribution of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Spoligotypes

Published in Emerging infectious diseases • Nov 1, 2002

Authors:

Ingrid Filliol

Jeffrey Driscoll

Dick van Soolingen

Abstract

We present a short summary of recent observations on the global distribution of the major clades of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex, the causative agent of tuberculosis. This global distribution was defined by data-mining of an international spoligotyping database, SpolDB3. This database cont...

Subject

Tuberculosis

Clade

Mycobacterium tuberculosis

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