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Emerging peak on the phylogeographic landscape of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in West Asia: Definitely smoke, likely fire.
Molecular phylogenetics and evolution - 1 Nov 2017
Mokrousov Igor, Shitikov Egor, Skiba Yuriy, Kolchenko Sergey, Chernyaeva Ekaterina, Vyazovaya Anna
Abstract excerpt
To date, a major attention was justly given to the global lineages of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Here, we demonstrated an importance of the minor ones, on an example of intriguing and underestimated NEW-1 family that belongs to Euro-American lineage (lineage 4). Analysis of the global WGS/NGS datasets (5715 strains) identified 2235 strains of Lineage 4 and 66 strains of sublineage L4.5. This latter is marked...
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