A systematic review of East African-Indian family of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in Brazil

This deposit is composed by a publication in which the IGC's authors have had the role of collaboration (it's a collaboration publication). This type of deposit in ARCA is in restrictedAccess (it can't be in open access to the public), and can only be accessed by two ways: either by requesting a legal copy from the author (the email contact present in this deposit) or by visiting the following link: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1413867016305475?via%3DihubFurther funders are not indicated in the document.The Mycobacterium tuberculosis East African-Indian (EAI) spoligotyping family (belonging to lineage 1, Indo-Oceanic, defined by the region of deletion RD239) is distributed worldwide, but is more prevalent in Southeast Asia, India, and East Africa. Studies in Latin America have rarely identified EAI. In this study, we describe the occurrence of the EAI family in Brazil.Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico grant: (Edital MCT-CNPq/MS-SCTIE-DECIT – N° 25/2006)