A description of Lineage 1Mycobacterium tuberculosisfrom Papua, Indonesia
Hanif A. K. Djunaedy,
Clarissa A. Febinia,
Raph L. Hamers
et al.
Abstract:Indonesia has the third highest number of tuberculosis (TB) patients infected with Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) Lineage 1 (L1). Most of these MTB L1 cases can be found in Indonesias remote easternmost province of Papua, one of Indonesias most underdeveloped provinces with a particularly high burden for TB. In this study, we sequenced and described 42 MTB L1 isolates from a well-characterized cohort of patients. We found a genetically diverse MTB L1 population with no association between pathogen genetic re… Show more
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