Acknowledgements
This study received funding from the Network of the European Union, Latin America and the Caribbean Countries on Joint Innovation and Research Activities ERANet-LAC (TRANS-TB-TRANS) (Refs AC16/00057; ELAC2015/T08-0664); Sistema Nacional de Investigadores (SNI) de Panamá and Secretaría Nacional de Ciencia Tecnología e Innovación (SENACYT; Grant no. 82-2015), ISCIII (grant no. AC16/00057, grant no. FIS15/01554; grant no. 18/00599; grant no. 19/00331, and Miguel Servet to L.P.L.[contract no. MS15/00075]) and IFARHU-SENACYT (grant no. 270-2016-293) to F.A. Russian Science Foundation (grant 19-14-00013 to I.M.).
Authors would like to thank the support of collaborators Isolina Martinez, Yaracelys Cuadra, Ana de Chavez, William Teeran, Rolando González, Lizbeth Garibaldi, Marianela Delgado, Miss Fruto, and other health care workers that identified and treated tuberculosis patients in Colon, Panama and whose isolates were used for this study. A special thanks to medical technologists Priya Patel and Ricardo Saldaña who provided assistance in preparing the collection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates from Colon and Chiriquí, respectively.
The authors are grateful to Dainora Jaloveckas (cienciatraducida.com) for editing and proofreading assistance.
Ethical statement : The authors confirm that the ethical policies of the journal, as noted on the journal’s author guidelines page, have been adhered to. No ethical approval was required as this is an strictly focused on bacterial isolates analysis.
Conflict of interest: No author declare conflict of interest.