First Molecular Epidemiology Study of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in Kiribati

• Eman Aleksic ,

  * E-mail: eman@burnet.edu.au

  Affiliation Centre for Virology, Burnet Institute, Melbourne, Australia

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• Matthias Merker,

  Affiliation Molecular Mycobacteriology, National Reference Center for Mycobacteria, Forschungszentrum, Borstel, Germany

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• Helen Cox,

  Affiliations Centre for Virology, Burnet Institute, Melbourne, Australia, Department of Medicine, Monash University, Victoria, Australia

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• Bereka Reiher,

  Affiliation TB Clinic, Tungaru Central Hospital, Tarawa, Kiribati

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• Zamberi Sekawi,

  Affiliation Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University Putra Malaysia, Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia

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• Anna C. Hearps,

  Affiliation Centre for Virology, Burnet Institute, Melbourne, Australia

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• Claire E. Ryan,

  Affiliation Centre for Virology, Burnet Institute, Melbourne, Australia

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• Adele V. Lee,

  Affiliation Centre for Virology, Burnet Institute, Melbourne, Australia

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• Regis Goursaud,

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Pasteur Institute, Noumea, New Caledonia

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• Clement Malau,

  Affiliations Centre for Virology, Burnet Institute, Melbourne, Australia, Nossal Institute of Health, The University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

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• Janet O'Connor,

  Affiliation Secretariat of the Pacific Community, Noumea, New Caledonia

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• Catherine L. Cherry,

  Affiliations Centre for Virology, Burnet Institute, Melbourne, Australia, Department of Infectious Diseases, The Alfred Hospital, Melbourne, Australia

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• Stefan Niemann ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Stefan Niemann, Suzanne M. Crowe

  Affiliation Molecular Mycobacteriology, National Reference Center for Mycobacteria, Forschungszentrum, Borstel, Germany

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• Suzanne M. Crowe

  Contributed equally to this work with: Stefan Niemann, Suzanne M. Crowe

  Affiliations Centre for Virology, Burnet Institute, Melbourne, Australia, Department of Medicine, Monash University, Victoria, Australia, Department of Infectious Diseases, The Alfred Hospital, Melbourne, Australia

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