Background The Direct Repeat locus of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex (MTC) is a
member of the CRISPR (Clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats) …

Infection from Mycobacterium tuberculosis results in the death of three million people worldwide
per annum of which an estimated one thousand are in Saudi Arabia. The WHO has set a …

This study constitutes a first attempt to describe the genetic population structure and drug
resistance of the tubercle bacilli circulating in Saudi Arabia. A total of 1,505 clinical isolates of M…

Background Non-Tuberculous Mycobacteria (NTM) are emerging around the world due to a
higher prevalence of immunosuppressive illness and therapy. Saudi Arabia is not an …

Five Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates were obtained from three body sites from a Dutch
patient. The isolates displayed a single genotype by 24-locus MIRU-VNTR typing (except for …

A non-chromogenic, slowly growing Mycobacterium strain was isolated from a maxillary sinus
lavage from a symptomatic patient in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. It was initially identified as a …

Despite the efficacy of antibiotics to protect humankind against many deadly pathogens,
such as Mycobacterium tuberculosis, nothing can prevent the emergence of drug-resistant …

Saudi Arabia is the third-largest Arab country with a moderate annual burden of tuberculosis.
However, tuberculosis (TB) is among several infectious diseases that have not been …

Generalist and specialist species differ in the breadth of their ecological niches. Little is known
about the niche width of obligate human pathogens. Here we analyzed a global collection …

… Ntinginya 9 Celso Khosa Celso Khosa 10 Sofia Viegas Sofia Viegas 10 Glennah Kerubo
Glennah Kerubo 11 Solomon Ali Solomon Ali 12 Sahal A. Al-Hajoj Sahal A. Al-Hajoj 13 …