A first insight into genetic diversity of Mycobacterium bovis isolated from extrapulmonary tuberculosis patients in South Tunisia assessed by spoligotyping and MIRU VNTR

• Mariam Siala ,

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

  * E-mail: mariamsiela@gmail.com

  Affiliations Department of Biology, Preparatory Institute for Engineering Studies, Sfax, University of Sfax-Tunisia, Department of Life Sciences, Research Laboratory of Environmental Toxicology-Microbiology and Health (LR17ES06), Faculty of Sciences, Sfax, University of Sfax-Tunisia

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8823-771X

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• Cécile Cassan,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation MIVEGEC, UMR IRD–CNRS—Université de Montpellier, Montpellier, France

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• Salma Smaoui,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Mycobacteriology, Regional hygiene care laboratory, Hedi-Chaker University Hospital, Sfax, Tunisia, Department of Biology B, Faculty of pharmacy, Monastir, University of Monastir, Monastir, Tunisia

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• Sana Kammoun,

  Roles Data curation, Resources

  Affiliations Department of Mycobacteriology, Regional hygiene care laboratory, Hedi-Chaker University Hospital, Sfax, Tunisia, Department of Biology B, Faculty of pharmacy, Monastir, University of Monastir, Monastir, Tunisia

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• Chema Marouane,

  Roles Data curation, Resources

  Affiliations Department of Mycobacteriology, Regional hygiene care laboratory, Hedi-Chaker University Hospital, Sfax, Tunisia, Department of Biology B, Faculty of pharmacy, Monastir, University of Monastir, Monastir, Tunisia

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• Sylvain Godreuil,

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

  Affiliations MIVEGEC, UMR IRD–CNRS—Université de Montpellier, Montpellier, France, Laboratoire de Bactériologie, CHU de Montpellier, France

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• Salma Hachicha,

  Roles Data curation, Resources

  Affiliations Department of Mycobacteriology, Regional hygiene care laboratory, Hedi-Chaker University Hospital, Sfax, Tunisia, Department of Biology B, Faculty of pharmacy, Monastir, University of Monastir, Monastir, Tunisia

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• Emna Mhiri,

  Roles Data curation, Resources

  Affiliations Department of Biology B, Faculty of pharmacy, Monastir, University of Monastir, Monastir, Tunisia, Department of Microbiology, National Reference Laboratory of Mycobacteria, Research Unit (UR12SP18), A. Mami University Hospital of Pneumology, Ariana, Tunisia

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• Leila Slim,

  Roles Data curation, Resources

  Affiliations Department of Biology B, Faculty of pharmacy, Monastir, University of Monastir, Monastir, Tunisia, Department of Microbiology, National Reference Laboratory of Mycobacteria, Research Unit (UR12SP18), A. Mami University Hospital of Pneumology, Ariana, Tunisia

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• Dhikrayet Gamara,

  Roles Data curation, Resources

  Affiliation Basic Health Care Management, Ministry of Health, Tunis, Tunisia

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• Férièle Messadi-Akrout ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Férièle Messadi-Akrout, Anne-Laure Bañuls

  Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Resources, Supervision

  Affiliations Department of Mycobacteriology, Regional hygiene care laboratory, Hedi-Chaker University Hospital, Sfax, Tunisia, Department of Biology B, Faculty of pharmacy, Monastir, University of Monastir, Monastir, Tunisia

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• Anne-Laure Bañuls

  Contributed equally to this work with: Férièle Messadi-Akrout, Anne-Laure Bañuls

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation MIVEGEC, UMR IRD–CNRS—Université de Montpellier, Montpellier, France

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