| Literature DB >> 19403776 |
Shirematee Baboolal1, Julie Millet, Patrick Eberechi Akpaka, Dottin Ramoutar, Nalin Rastogi.
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This report is based on a 1-year recruitment of all of the culture-positive Mycobacterium tuberculosis cases in Trinidad and Tobago (n = 132). The study population was characterized by a high male-to-female sex ratio of 4 and a human immunodeficiency virus-tuberculosis (TB) coinfection rate of 30%. It mainly occurred among African descendants, who represent 37.5% of the total population but 69.7% of all TB cases (P < 0.001). Spoligotyping resulted in 25 different patterns and 12 clusters (2 to 74 strains per cluster), with the predominance of a highly conserved spoligotype international type clone, SIT566.Entities:
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Year: 2009 PMID: 19403776 PMCID: PMC2691124 DOI: 10.1128/JCM.00535-09
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Clin Microbiol ISSN: 0095-1137 Impact factor: 5.948