A glimpse into the genotype and clinical importance of non tuberculous mycobacteria among pulmonary tuberculosis patients: The case of Ethiopia

• Alem Alemayehu ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Alem Alemayehu, Abebaw Kebede

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

  * E-mail: alemalemayehu@yahoo.com, gechayu2006@gmail.com

  Affiliations Department of Microbial, Cellular and Molecular Biology, College of Natural and Computational Sciences, Adds Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Armauer Hansen Research Institute, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, College of Health and Medical Sciences, School of Medial Laboratory Science, Haramaya University, Dire Dawa, Ethiopia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7650-6572

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• Abebaw Kebede ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Alem Alemayehu, Abebaw Kebede

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

  Affiliations Department of Microbial, Cellular and Molecular Biology, College of Natural and Computational Sciences, Adds Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Ethiopian Public Health Institute, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

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• Sebsib Neway,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Armauer Hansen Research Institute, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2033-5874

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• Efrem Tesfaye,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Ethiopian Public Health Institute, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

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• Betselot Zerihun,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Ethiopian Public Health Institute, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4277-2247

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• Melak Getu,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Ethiopian Public Health Institute, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

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• Beyene Petros

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Microbial, Cellular and Molecular Biology, College of Natural and Computational Sciences, Adds Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

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