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Understanding the epidemiology and pathogenesis of Mycobacterium tuberculosis with non-redundant pangenome of epidemic strains in China.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2025
Zhou Yang, Anthony Richard, Wang Shengfen, Xia Hui, Ou Xichao, Zhao Bing, Song Yuanyuan, Zheng Yang, He Ping, Liu Dongxin, Zhao Yanlin, van Soolingen Dick
Abstract excerpt
Tuberculosis is a major public health threat resulting in more than one million lives lost every year. Many challenges exist to defeat this deadly infectious disease which address the importance of a thorough understanding of the biology of the causative agent Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB). We generated a non-redundant pangenome of 420 epidemic MTB strains from China including 344 Lineage 2 strains, 69 Lineage...
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- Mycobacterium tuberculosis
- China
- Humans
- Tuberculosis
- Genome, Bacterial
- Epidemics
