The Role of Speciation in Positive Lowenstein-Jensen Culture Isolates from a High Tuberculosis Burden Country

• William Worodria ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: William Worodria, Jillian Anderson

  * E-mail: worodria@yahoo.com

  Affiliations Department of Medicine, Makerere University College of Health Sciences, Kampala, Uganda, Department of Medicine, Mulago National Referral and Teaching Hospital, Kampala, Uganda, San Francisco Research Collaboration, Makerere University-University of California San Francisco, Kampala, Uganda

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• Jillian Anderson ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: William Worodria, Jillian Anderson

  Affiliation Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco General Hospital, San Francisco, California, United States of America

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• Adithya Cattamanchi,

  Affiliations San Francisco Research Collaboration, Makerere University-University of California San Francisco, Kampala, Uganda, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco General Hospital, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Curry International Tuberculosis Center, Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco General Hospital, San Francisco, California, United States of America

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• J. Lucian Davis,

  Affiliations San Francisco Research Collaboration, Makerere University-University of California San Francisco, Kampala, Uganda, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco General Hospital, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Curry International Tuberculosis Center, Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco General Hospital, San Francisco, California, United States of America

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• Saskia den Boon,

  Affiliation San Francisco Research Collaboration, Makerere University-University of California San Francisco, Kampala, Uganda

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• Alfred Andama,

  Affiliations Department of Medicine, Makerere University College of Health Sciences, Kampala, Uganda, Department of Medicine, Mulago National Referral and Teaching Hospital, Kampala, Uganda, San Francisco Research Collaboration, Makerere University-University of California San Francisco, Kampala, Uganda

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• Samuel D. Yoo,

  Affiliations Department of Medicine, Makerere University College of Health Sciences, Kampala, Uganda, Department of Medicine, Mulago National Referral and Teaching Hospital, Kampala, Uganda, San Francisco Research Collaboration, Makerere University-University of California San Francisco, Kampala, Uganda

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• Moses Joloba,

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Makerere University School of Biomedical Sciences, Kampala, Uganda

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• Laurence Huang,

  Affiliations San Francisco Research Collaboration, Makerere University-University of California San Francisco, Kampala, Uganda, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco General Hospital, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Curry International Tuberculosis Center, Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco General Hospital, San Francisco, California, United States of America, HIV/AIDS Division, Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco General Hospital, San Francisco, California, United States of America

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• Midori Kato-Maeda

  Affiliations Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco General Hospital, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Curry International Tuberculosis Center, Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco General Hospital, San Francisco, California, United States of America

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