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Multidrug-resistant mycobacterium tuberculosis of the Latin American mediterranean lineage, wrongly identified as mycobacterium pinnipedii (Spoligotype International Type 863 [SIT863]), causing active tuberculosis in South Brazil

  • Autores: Clark TG, da Silva PA, Dalla Costa ER, Esteves LS, Gomes HM, Gomes LL, McNerney R, Pain A, Perdigão J, Portugal I, Rastogi N, Rossetti ML, Suffys PN, Unis G, Vasconcelos SE, Viveiros M
  • Ano de Publicação: 2015
  • Link: http://jcm.asm.org/content/53/12/3805.full%20

We recently detected the spoligotype patterns of strains of Mycobacterium pinnipedii, a species of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex, in sputum samples from nine cases with pulmonary tuberculosis residing in Porto Alegre, South Brazil. Because this species is rarely encountered in humans, we further characterized these nine isolates by additional genotyping techniques, including 24-locus mycobacterial interspersed […]
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