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Evolutionary history and spread of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis Latin American and Mediterranean (L4.3/LAM) sublineage, Tunisia.
Tuberculosis (Edinburgh, Scotland) - 1 Jan 2023
Skhairia Mohamed Amine, Dekhil Naira, Mardassi Helmi
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BACKGROUND: To infer the origin and spread of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis Latin American and Mediterranean (L4.3/LAM) sublineage in a Mediterranean country, Tunisia, where it predominates. METHODS: We combined Bayesian (STRUCTURE) and maximum likelihood (MIGRAINE) estimation approaches based on a global 24-loci mycobacterial interspersed repetitive units-variable numbers of tandem repeats (MIRU-VNTR24)...
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