Genotypic diversity of Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains in Myanmar

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Acknowledgements

We thank the staff from the National TB Reference Laboratory in Yangon, Myanmar for technical support. Ethical approval (12/11041) for this study was given by the Research and Ethical Committee of the University of Medicine 1, Yangon, Myanmar.

Disclosure statement

The authors declared no conflicts of interest.

Funding

This work was supported in part by the Japan Initiative for Global Research Network on Infectious Diseases (J-GRID) from Japan Agency for Medical Research and development, AMED, in part by a special research grant from the Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development (AMED), Grant Number 16fk0108302h0003, and in part by the grant from MEXT for the Joint Research Program of the Research Center for Zoonosis Control, Hokkaido University. TT received funding for travel and accommodation from the University of Otago Development Office to perform data analysis at the University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand. HLA was supported by the e-ASIA (East Asia) Joint Research Programme Grant from the New Zealand Health Research Council [grant number 15/648].