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Genomic analyses of the ancestral Manila family of Mycobacterium tuberculosis.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2017
Wan Xuehua, Koster Kent, Qian Lishi, Desmond Edward, Brostrom Richard, Hou Shaobin, Douglas James T
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With its airborne transmission and prolonged latency period, Mycobacterium tuberculosis spreads worldwide as one of the most successful bacterial pathogens and continues to kill millions of people every year. M. tuberculosis lineage 1 is inferred to originate ancestrally based on the presence of the 52-bp TbD1 sequence and analysis of single nucleotide polymorphisms. Previously, we briefly reported the complete...
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