Genetic Diversity and Transmission Characteristics of Beijing Family Strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in Peru

• Tomotada Iwamoto ,

  * E-mail: kx2t-iwmt@asahi-net.or.jp

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Kobe Institute of Health, Kobe, Japan

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• Louis Grandjean,

  Affiliations Wellcome Centre for Clinical Tropical Medicine, St. Mary’s Campus, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom, Clinical Research Department and TB Centre, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom, Laboratorio de Investigación de Enfermedades Infecciosas, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Peru

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• Kentaro Arikawa,

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Kobe Institute of Health, Kobe, Japan

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• Noriko Nakanishi,

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Kobe Institute of Health, Kobe, Japan

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• Luz Caviedes,

  Affiliation Laboratorio de Investigación de Enfermedades Infecciosas, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Peru

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• Jorge Coronel,

  Affiliation Laboratorio de Investigación de Enfermedades Infecciosas, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Peru

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• Patricia Sheen,

  Affiliation Laboratorio de Investigación de Enfermedades Infecciosas, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Peru

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• Takayuki Wada,

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Osaka City Institute of Public Health and Environmental Sciences, Osaka, Japan

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• Carmen A. Taype,

  Affiliation Faculty of Biological Science, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom

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• Marie-Anne Shaw,

  Affiliation Faculty of Biological Science, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom

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• David A. J. Moore,

  Affiliations Clinical Research Department and TB Centre, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom, Laboratorio de Investigación de Enfermedades Infecciosas, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Peru

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• Robert H. Gilman

  Affiliations Laboratorio de Investigación de Enfermedades Infecciosas, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Peru, Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins University, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

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