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The origin and erratic global spread of tuberculosis. How the past explains the present and is the key to the future.

Clinics in chest medicine - 1 Mar 1997

Stead W W

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Although tuberculosis is a disease known in antiquity, it was not distributed equally or simultaneously throughout the world. Recent genetic studies of the various species of mycobacteria give strong evidence of evolution of M. tuberculosis from saprophytic soil bacteria to M. bovis, which attacks a wide spectrum of lower animals, and then to M. tuberculosis, with the pathogenicity largely limited to humans. The...

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PMID: 9098611
DOI: 10.1016/s0272-5231(05)70356-7

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