Snapshot of Moving and Expanding Clones of <i>Mycobacterium tuberculosis</i> and Their Global Distribution Assessed by Spoligotyping in an International Study

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, Karine; 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; Kassa-Kelembho, Eric; 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:10.1128/jcm.41.5.1963-1970.2003

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Snapshot of Moving and Expanding Clones of Mycobacterium tuberculosis and Their Global Distribution Assessed by Spoligotyping in an International Study

Published in Journal of Clinical Microbiology • May 1, 2003

Authors:

Ingrid Filliol

Jeffrey Driscoll

Dick van Soolingen

Abstract

The present update on the global distribution of Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex spoligotypes provides both the octal and binary descriptions of the spoligotypes for M. tuberculosis complex, including Mycobacterium bovis, from >90 countries (13,008 patterns grouped into 813 shared types containin...

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Tuberculosis

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