Migrations and Tuberculosis: A comparative study of Mycobacterium tuberculosis genomic population structure in Brazil and Mozambique to historical triangular slave trade knowledge to reconstruct the origins of tuberculosis infections caused by Lineage 1 in Brazil.

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Lineage 1 is an ancestral lineage of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex (MTBC) comprising five sublineages. In a previous study, we suggested that a representative of sublineage L1.1.3, present in both Mozambique and northern Brazil, SIT129, may have been brought to Brazil by sea during the long history of slavery that lasted, between Africa and Brazil, from the early 16th century to the mid-19th century. In...

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