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Mycobacterium africanum (Lineage 6) shows slower sputum smear conversion on tuberculosis treatment than Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Lineage 4) in Bamako, Mali

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2018

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Bassirou Diarra, Mahamadou Koné, Antieme Combo Georges Togo, Yéya dit Sadio Sarro, Aissata Boubakar Cisse, Boureima Degoga, Mohamed Tolofoudié, Bourahima Kone, M. Sanogo, Bocar Baya,
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Abstract

The six major human lineages of the MTBc all circulate in Bamako. Counter to our hypothesis, we found that patients diseased with modern M. tuberculosis complex L4 respond faster to TB treatment than those with M. africanum L6.

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