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Modeling bacterial evolution with comparative-genome-based marker systems: application to Mycobacterium tuberculosis evolution and pathogenesis.
Journal of bacteriology - 1 Jun 2003
Alland David, Whittam Thomas S, Murray Megan B, Cave M Donald, Hazbon Manzour H, Dix Kim, Kokoris Mark, Duesterhoeft Andreas, Eisen Jonathan A, Fraser Claire M, Fleischmann Robert D
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The comparative-genomic sequencing of two Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains enabled us to identify single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) markers for studies of evolution, pathogenesis, and epidemiology in clinical M. tuberculosis. Phylogenetic analysis using these "comparative-genome markers" (CG...
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