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Transmission Dynamics of a Mycobacterium tuberculosis Complex Outbreak in an Indigenous Population in the Colombian Amazon Region

Published:2023-06-15 Issue:3 Volume:11 Page:
ISSN:2165-0497
Container-title:Microbiology Spectrum
language:en
Short-container-title:Microbiol Spectr

Author:

Pérez-Llanos Francy J.¹^ORCID,Dreyer Viola¹²^ORCID,Barilar Ivan¹²,Utpatel Christian¹²,Kohl Thomas A.¹²^ORCID,Murcia Martha Isabel³,Homolka Susanne¹,Merker Matthias¹²⁴^ORCID,Niemann Stefan¹²^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Molecular and Experimental Mycobacteriology, Research Center Borstel, Borstel, Germany

2. German Center for Infection Research, Hamburg-Lübeck-Borstel-Riems, Germany

3. Grupo MICOBAC-UN, Departamento de Microbiología, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia

4. Evolution of the Resistome, Research Center Borstel, Borstel, Germany

Abstract

The Colombian Amazon around Puerto Nariño has a high tuberculosis burden with a prevalence of 1,267/100,000 people in 2016. Recently, an outbreak of Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex (MTBC) bacteria among the indigenous populations was identified with classical MTBC genotyping methods.

Funder

Sistema General de Regalias (SGR), Fondo de Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación del

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft

IPF | Leibniz-Gemeinschaft

Publisher

American Society for Microbiology

Subject

Infectious Diseases,Cell Biology,Microbiology (medical),Genetics,General Immunology and Microbiology,Ecology,Physiology

Link

https://journals.asm.org/doi/pdf/10.1128/spectrum.05013-22

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