Half of rifampicin-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex isolated from tuberculosis patients in Sub-Saharan Africa have concomitant resistance to pyrazinamide

• Jean Claude Semuto Ngabonziza ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: cldsemuto@gmail.com

  Affiliations National Reference Laboratory Division, Biomedical Services Department, Rwanda Biomedical Centre, Kigali, Rwanda, Mycobacteriology Unit, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6075-5603

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• Awa Ba Diallo,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Mycobacteriology Unit, Bacteriology- Virology Laboratory, CHNU Aristide le Dantec, Dakar, Senegal

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• Elisa Tagliani,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Emerging Bacterial Pathogens Unit, Division of Immunology, Transplantation and Infectious Diseases, IRCCS San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy

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• Bassirou Diarra,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation SEREFO/UCRC Program, University of Sciences, Techniques and Technologies of Bamako, Bamako, Mali

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• Abalo Essosimna Kadanga,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Laboratoire National de Référence de Mycobactéries, Lome, Togo

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• Antieme Combo George Togo,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation SEREFO/UCRC Program, University of Sciences, Techniques and Technologies of Bamako, Bamako, Mali

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• Aliou Thiam,

  Roles Formal analysis

  Affiliation Mycobacteriology Unit, Bacteriology- Virology Laboratory, CHNU Aristide le Dantec, Dakar, Senegal

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• Willem Bram de Rijk,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Validation

  Affiliation Mycobacteriology Unit, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium

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• Riccardo Alagna,

  Roles Formal analysis

  Affiliation Emerging Bacterial Pathogens Unit, Division of Immunology, Transplantation and Infectious Diseases, IRCCS San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy

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• Sabine Houeto,

  Roles Formal analysis

  Affiliation Laboratoire de Référence des Mycobactéries, Cotonou, Benin

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• Fatoumata Ba,

  Roles Formal analysis, Supervision

  Affiliation Laboratoire de Reference des Mycobactéries, Dakar, Senegal

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• Anoumou Yaotsè Dagnra,

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Laboratoire National de Référence de Mycobactéries, Lome, Togo

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• Emil Ivan,

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation National Reference Laboratory Division, Biomedical Services Department, Rwanda Biomedical Centre, Kigali, Rwanda

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• Dissou Affolabi,

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Validation

  Affiliation Laboratoire de Référence des Mycobactéries, Cotonou, Benin

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• Valérie Schwoebel,

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Validation

  Affiliation International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease, Paris, France

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• Arnaud Trebucq,

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease, Paris, France

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• Bouke Catherine de Jong,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Mycobacteriology Unit, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium

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• Leen Rigouts,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Mycobacteriology Unit, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Antwerp University, Antwerp, Belgium

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• Géraldine Daneau,

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

  Affiliations Mycobacteriology Unit, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium, Biomedical section, Haute Ecole Francisco Ferrer, Brussels, Belgium

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• the “Union short MDR-TB regimen study group”

  ¶The complete membership of the author group can be found in the Acknowledgments.

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