| genetic biodiversity of mycobacterium tuberculosis complex strains from patients with pulmonary tuberculosis in cameroon. | we analyzed dna polymorphisms in 455 mycobacterium tuberculosis complex isolates from 455 patients to evaluate the biodiversity of tubercle bacilli in ouest province, cameroon. the phenotypic and genotypic identification methods gave concordant results for 99.5% of m. tuberculosis isolates (413 strains) and for 90% of mycobacterium africanum isolates (41 strains). mycobacterium bovis was isolated from only one patient. analysis of regions of difference (rd4, rd9, and rd10) proved to be an accura ... | 2003 | 12791879 |