Pulmonary tuberculosis: Virulence of Mycobacterium africanum and relevance in HIV co-infection
Christian G. Meyer1, Genevieve Scarisbrick2, Stefan Niemann3, Edmund N.L. Browne4, Margaret Amanua Chinbuah5, John Gyapong5, Ivy Osei5, Ellis Owusu-Dabo4,6, Tanja Kubica3, Sabine Rüsch-Gerdes3, Thorsten Thye1,7, Rolf D. Horstmann1
1Department of Molecular Medicine, Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg, Germany
2Department of Radiology, Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital, Kumasi, Ghana
3National Reference Center for Mycobacteria, Research Center Borstel, Borstel, Germany
4Department of Community Health, School of Medical Sciences, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana
5Health Research Unit, Ghana Health Service, Accra, Ghana
6Kumasi Centre for Collaborative Research in Tropical Medicine, Kumasi, Ghana
7Institute of Medical Biometry and Statistics, University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany