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Ubiquitous and multifaceted: SIT53 spoligotype does not correlate with any particular family of Mycobacterium tuberculosis.
Tuberculosis (Edinburgh, Scotland) - 1 Jan 2021
Mokrousov Igor
Abstract excerpt
Euro-American lineage (Lineage 4) of Mycobacterium tuberculosis comprises genetically and geographically diverse families that differ in their clinical and/or epidemiological capacities. Due to the characteristic structure of the CRISPR locus (presence of almost all 43 classical spacers except for deleted signals 33-36), spoligotype SIT53 takes the basal position in the evolution of this lineage. In the SITVIT...
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