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Volume 8, Number 11
Dispatches
Global Distribution of
Mycobacterium tuberculosis Spoligotypes
Ingrid Filliol,* Jeffrey R. Driscoll,† Dick van Soolingen,‡ Barry
N. Kreiswirth,§ Kristin Kremer,‡ Georges Valétudie,* Dang Duc Anh,¶ Rachael
Barlow,# Dilip Banerjee,** Pablo J. Bifani§, Karine Brudey,* Angel Cataldi,††
Robert C. Cooksey,‡‡ Debby V. Cousins,§§ Jeremy W. Dale,¶¶ Odir A. Dellagostin,##
Francis Drobniewski,*** Guido Engelmann,††† Séverine Ferdinand,* Deborah
Gascoyne-Binzi,# Max Gordon,* M. Cristina Gutierrez,‡‡‡ Walter H. Haas,§§§
Herre Heersma,‡ Gunilla Källenius,¶¶¶ Eric Kassa-Kelembho,### Tuija Koivula,¶¶¶
Ho Minh Ly,¶ Athanasios Makristathis,**** Caterina Mammina,†††† Gerald
Martin,‡‡‡‡ Peter Moström,* Igor Mokrousov,§§§§ Valérie Narbonne,¶¶¶¶
Olga Narvskaya,§§§§ Antonino Nastasi,#### Sara Ngo Niobe-Eyangoh,‡‡‡ Jean
W Pape,*****††††† Voahangy Rasolofo-Razanamparany,‡‡‡‡‡ Malin Ridell,§§§§§
M. Lucia Rossetti,¶¶¶¶¶ Fritz Stauffer,##### Philip N. Suffys,****** Howard
Takiff,†††††† Jeanne Texier-Maugein,‡‡‡‡‡‡ Véronique Vincent,‡‡‡ Jacobus
H. de Waard,§§§§§§ Christophe Sola,* and Nalin Rastogi*
*Institut Pasteur, Pointe-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe, French West Indies;
†Wadsworth Center, Albany, New York, USA; ‡National Institute of Public
Health and the Environment, Bilthoven, the Netherlands; §Public Health
Research Institute, New York, New York, USA; ¶National Institute of Hygiene
and Epidemiology, Hanoi, Vietnam; # General Infirmary, Leeds, U.K.; **St.
Georges’ Hospital Medical School, London, U.K.; ††Instituto de Biotecnologia,
Castelar, Argentina; ‡‡Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta,
Georgia, USA; §§Australian Reference Laboratory for Bovine Tuberculosis,
Department of Agriculture, South Perth, Australia; ¶¶University of Surrey,
Guildford, Surrey, U.K.; ##Universidade Federal, Pelotas, Brazil; ***Public
Health Laboratory Service, Dulwich Hospital, London, U.K.; †††University
Children’s Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany; ‡‡‡Institut Pasteur, Paris,
France; §§§Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany; ¶¶¶Swedish Institute
for Infectious Disease Control, Solna, Sweden; ###Institut Pasteur, Bangui,
Central African Republic; ****Hygiene-Institut der Universität, Wien,
Austria; ††††University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy; ‡‡‡‡Bundesinstitut
für gesundheitlichenVerbraucherschutz und Veterinärmedizin, Jena, Germany;
§§§§Pasteur Institute of Saint Petersburg, Saint Petersburg, Russia; ¶¶¶¶Centre
Hospitalier Universitaire, Brest, France; ####University of Firenze, Firenze,
Italy; *****Les Centres Gheskio, Institut National de Laboratoire et de
Recherche, Port-au- Prince, Haïti; †††††Cornell University, Ithaca, New
York, USA; ‡‡‡‡‡Institut Pasteur, Tananarive, Madagascar; §§§§§Göteborg
University, Göteborg, Sweden; ¶¶¶¶¶Universidade Federal do Rio Grande
do Sul, Brazil; #####Bundesstaatliche bakteriologisch-serologische Untersuchungsanstalt
Wien, Austria; ******Oswaldo Cruz Institute, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; ††††††Caracas,
Venezuela; ‡‡‡‡‡‡Centre Hospitalier Universitaire, Bordeaux, France; and
§§§§§§Instituto de Investigacionas Cientificas, Caracas, Venezuela
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