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A smooth tubercle bacillus from Ethiopia phylogenetically close to the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex
18 Nov 2023
Abstract excerpt
The Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex (MTBC) includes several human- and animal-adapted pathogens. It is thought to have originated in East Africa from a recombinogenic Mycobacterium canettii-like ancestral pool. Here, we describe the discovery of a clinical tuberculosis strain isolated in Ethiopia that shares archetypal phenotypic and genomic features of M. canettii strains, but represents a phylogenetic branch...
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