Genomic Interrogation of the Dassie Bacillus Reveals It as a Unique RD1 Mutant within the <i>Mycobacterium tuberculosis</i> Complex

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Despite their remarkable genetic homology, members of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex express very different phenotypes, most notably in their spectra of clinical presentation. For example, M. tuberculosis is regarded as pathogenic to humans, whereas members having deleted RD1, such as Mycobacterium microti and Mycobacterium bovis BCG, are not. The dassie bacillus, an infrequent variant of the M....

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