Clonal expansion across the seas as seen through CPLP-TB database: A joint effort in cataloguing Mycobacterium tuberculosis genetic diversity in Portuguese-speaking countries
Infect. gent. evol; 72 (), 2019
Tuberculosis (TB) remains a major health problem within the Community of Portuguese Language Speaking Countries (CPLP). Despite the marked variation in TB incidence across its member-states and continued human migratory flux between countries, a considerable gap in the knowledge on the Mycobacterium tube...
Bacterial Typing Techniques, Databases, Genetic, Genetic Variation, Microsatellite Repeats, Molecular Epidemiology, Mozambique/epidemiology, Mycobacterium tuberculosis/genetics, Tuberculosis, Multidrug-Resistant/epidemiology, Tuberculosis, Multidrug-Resistant/microbiology, Tuberculosis, Multidrug-Resistant/transmission