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Human and tuberculosis co-evolution: An integrative view.
Tuberculosis (Edinburgh, Scotland) - 1 Jun 2015
Perrin Pascale
Abstract excerpt
Tuberculosis (TB) ranks as the second cause of death from an infectious disease worldwide after HIV. Archaeogenetics and evolutionary scenario for the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex (MTBC) are in favor of a long-term interaction between tuberculosis and humans, predating the Neolithic period, contrary to the traditional belief. If tuberculosis evolved as a human pathogen in Africa and has spread outside...
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