A Geographically-Restricted but Prevalent Mycobacterium tuberculosis Strain Identified in the West Midlands Region of the UK between 1995 and 2008

• Jason T. Evans ,

  * E-mail: jason.evans@heartofengland.nhs.uk

  Affiliation Health Protection Agency West Midlands Laboratory, Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust, Bordesley Green East, Birmingham, United Kingdom

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• Robert L. Serafino Wani,

  Affiliation Department of Infection, Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom

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• Laura Anderson,

  Affiliation Respiratory Diseases Department - Tuberculosis Section, Health Protection Agency Centre for Infections, London, United Kingdom

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• Andrea L. Gibson,

  Affiliation Health Protection Agency West Midlands Laboratory, Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust, Bordesley Green East, Birmingham, United Kingdom

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• E. Grace Smith,

  Affiliation Health Protection Agency West Midlands Laboratory, Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust, Bordesley Green East, Birmingham, United Kingdom

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• Annette Wood,

  Affiliation Health Protection Agency West Midlands East Health Protection Unit, Birmingham, United Kingdom

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• Babatunde Olowokure,

  Affiliation Health Protection Agency West Midlands Regional Epidemiology Unit, Birmingham, United Kingdom

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• Ibrahim Abubakar,

  Affiliation Respiratory Diseases Department - Tuberculosis Section, Health Protection Agency Centre for Infections, London, United Kingdom

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• Jonathan S. Mann,

  Affiliation Department of Respiratory Medicine, New Cross Hospital, Wolverhampton, United Kingdom

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• Sarah Gardiner,

  Affiliation Health Protection Agency West Midlands Laboratory, Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust, Bordesley Green East, Birmingham, United Kingdom

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• Helen Jones,

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, New Cross Hospital, Wolverhampton, United Kingdom

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• Pam Sonnenberg,

  Affiliation Department of Infection & Population Health, Centre for Sexual Health & HIV Research, University College London, London, United Kingdom

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• Peter M. Hawkey

  Affiliations Health Protection Agency West Midlands Laboratory, Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust, Bordesley Green East, Birmingham, United Kingdom, School of Immunity and Infection, College of Medical and Dental Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom

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