Genetic profiling of Mycobacterium tuberculosis revealed “modern” Beijing strains linked to MDR-TB from Southwestern Colombia

• Luisa Maria Nieto Ramirez ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Luisa Maria Nieto Ramirez, Beatriz E. Ferro

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

  Affiliation Universidad Santiago de Cali, Cali, Colombia

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1566-5876

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• Beatriz E. Ferro ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Luisa Maria Nieto Ramirez, Beatriz E. Ferro

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

  * E-mail: beferro@gmail.com

  Affiliation Departamento de Salud Pública y Medicina Comunitaria, Universidad Icesi, Cali, Colombia

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• Gustavo Diaz,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Centro Internacional de Entrenamiento e Investigaciones Médicas (CIDEIM), Cali, Colombia, Universidad Icesi, Cali, Colombia

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• Richard M. Anthony,

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

  Affiliation Mycobacteria Diagnostic Laboratory for Bacteriology and Parasitology (BPD) Center for Infectious Disease Research, Diagnostics and Perinatal Screening (IDS) National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), Bilthoven, The Netherlands

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• Jessica de Beer,

  Roles Investigation, Resources, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands

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• Dick van Soolingen

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Mycobacteria Diagnostic Laboratory for Bacteriology and Parasitology (BPD) Center for Infectious Disease Research, Diagnostics and Perinatal Screening (IDS) National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), Bilthoven, The Netherlands, Department of Medical Microbiology, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

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