Classifying recurrent Mycobacterium tuberculosis cases in Georgia using MIRU-VNTR typing

• Nino Maghradze,

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

  Affiliations Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland, National Center for Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases (NCTLD), Tbilisi, Georgia

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• Levan Jugheli,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland, National Center for Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases (NCTLD), Tbilisi, Georgia

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• Sonia Borrell,

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

  Affiliations Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

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• Nestani Tukvadze,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland, National Center for Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases (NCTLD), Tbilisi, Georgia

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• Rusudan Aspindzelashvili,

  Roles Funding acquisition

  Affiliation National Center for Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases (NCTLD), Tbilisi, Georgia

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• Zaza Avaliani,

  Roles Funding acquisition

  Affiliation National Center for Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases (NCTLD), Tbilisi, Georgia

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• Klaus Reither,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

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• Sebastien Gagneux

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: sebastien.gagneux@swisstph.ch

  Affiliations Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7783-9048

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