Molecular clustering of patients with Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains cultured from the diabetic and non-diabetic newly diagnosed TB positive cases

Background: Social determinants of health, biological, and individual variants have been associated with Pulmonary TB (PTB) case clustering. None of the studies have focused on diabetes mellitus (DM) despite it being one of the co-morbidity affecting TB patients. Minimal data is available and it is...

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Main Authors: Josephine W. Mburu, Leonard Kingwara, Magiri Esther, Nyerere Andrew
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2018-08-01
Series:Journal of Clinical Tuberculosis and Other Mycobacterial Diseases
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2405579418300081