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Origin and primary dispersal of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis Beijing genotype: clues from human phylogeography.
Genome research - 1 Oct 2005
Mokrousov Igor, Ly Ho Minh, Otten Tatiana, Lan Nguyen Ngoc, Vyshnevskyi Boris, Hoffner Sven, Narvskaya Olga
Abstract excerpt
We suggest that the evolution of the population structure of microbial pathogens is influenced by that of modern humans. Consequently, the timing of hallmark changes in bacterial genomes within the last 100,000 yr may be attempted by comparison with relevant human migrations. Here, we used a lineage within Mycobacterium tuberculosis, a Beijing genotype, as a model and compared its phylogeography with human...
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