Genotypic characterization directly applied to sputum improves the detection of Mycobacterium africanum West African 1, under-represented in positive cultures

C. N’Dira Sanoussi; Dissou Affolabi; Leen Rigouts; Séverin Anagonou; Bouke de Jong

doi:10.1371/journal.pntd.0005900

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Genotypic characterization directly applied to sputum improves the detection of Mycobacterium africanum West African 1, under-represented in positive cultures

C. N’Dira Sanoussi ,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: bdejong@itg.be (BdJ); ndirasanoussi@gmail.com (CNS)

Affiliations Mycobacteriology Unit, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium, Laboratoire de Référence des Mycobactéries, Centre National Hospitalier Universitaire de Pneumo-Phtisiologie de Cotonou, National Tuberculosis Programme, Cotonou, Benin, Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium

http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0516-574X

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Dissou Affolabi,

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Laboratoire de Référence des Mycobactéries, Centre National Hospitalier Universitaire de Pneumo-Phtisiologie de Cotonou, National Tuberculosis Programme, Cotonou, Benin
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Leen Rigouts,

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Mycobacteriology Unit, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium, Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium
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Séverin Anagonou,

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Resources, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Laboratoire de Référence des Mycobactéries, Centre National Hospitalier Universitaire de Pneumo-Phtisiologie de Cotonou, National Tuberculosis Programme, Cotonou, Benin
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Bouke de Jong

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: bdejong@itg.be (BdJ); ndirasanoussi@gmail.com (CNS)

Affiliation Mycobacteriology Unit, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium
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Genotypic characterization directly applied to sputum improves the detection of Mycobacterium africanum West African 1, under-represented in positive cultures

C. N’Dira Sanoussi,
Dissou Affolabi,
Leen Rigouts,
Séverin Anagonou,
Bouke de Jong

Published: September 1, 2017
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0005900

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