TY - JOUR AU - Desmond, Edward AU - Ahmed, Ameena T. AU - Probert, William S. AU - Ely, Janet AU - Jang, Yvonne AU - Sanders, Cynthia A. AU - Lin, Shou-Yean AU - Flood, Jennifer T1 - Mycobacterium africanum Cases, California T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal PY - 2004 VL - 10 IS - 5 SP - 921 SN - 1080-6059 AB - Five Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex isolates in California were identified as M. africanum by spoligotyping, single nucleotide polymorphisms, a deletion mutation, and phenotypic traits, confirming it as a cause of tuberculosis in the United States. Three of the five patients from whom M. africanum was isolated had lived in Africa. KW - Mycobacterium KW - Mycobacterium tuberculosis KW - Epidemiology KW - molecular KW - Tuberculosis KW - California KW - United States DO - 10.3201/eid1005.030016 UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/10/5/03-0016_article ER - End of Reference