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.
Desmond
Edward
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Microbial Diseases Laboratory, California Department of Health Services, Richmond, California 93804, USA. edesmond@dhs.ca.gov
Ahmed
Ameena T
AT
Probert
William S
WS
Ely
Janet
J
Jang
Yvonne
Y
Sanders
Cynthia A
CA
Lin
Shou-Yean
SY
Flood
Jennifer
J
D000328:Adult; D000349:Africa; D015373:Bacterial Typing Techniques; D002140:California; D004269:DNA, Bacterial / Q000032:analysis / Q000235:genetics; D005260:Female; D017353:Gene Deletion; D005838:Genotype; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009161:Mycobacterium / Q000145:classification* / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D009841:Oligonucleotides / Q000235:genetics; D010641:Phenotype; D020641:Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide; D014397:Tuberculosis, Pulmonary / Q000382:microbiology*
D004269:DNA, Bacterial; D009841:Oligonucleotides