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Turkish and Japanese Mycobacterium tuberculosis sublineages share a remote common ancestor.
Infection, genetics and evolution : journal of molecular epidemiology and evolutionary genetics in infectious diseases - 1 Nov 2016
Refrégier Guislaine, Abadia Edgar, Matsumoto Tomoshige, Ano Hiromi, Takashima Tetsuya, Tsuyuguchi Izuo, Aktas Elif, Cömert Füsun, Gomgnimbou Michel Kireopori, Panaiotov Stefan, Phelan Jody, Coll Francesc, McNerney Ruth, Pain Arnab, Clark Taane G, Sola Christophe
Abstract excerpt
Two geographically distant M. tuberculosis sublineages, Tur from Turkey and T3-Osaka from Japan, exhibit partially identical genotypic signatures (identical 12-loci MIRU-VNTR profiles, distinct spoligotyping patterns). We investigated T3-Osaka and Tur sublineages characteristics and potential genetic relatedness, first using MIRU-VNTR locus analysis on 21 and 25 samples of each sublineage respectively, and second...
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