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Insights into ancestry and adaptive evolution of the <i>Mycobacterium tuberculosis</i> complex from analysis of the emerging pathogen <i>Mycobacterium riyadhense</i>
2019-08-09
Abstract excerpt
Current evolutionary scenarios posit the emergence of Mycobacterium tuberculosis , the deadliest bacterial pathogen for humans globally, from an environmental saprophyte through a cumulative process of genome adaptation. Mycobacterium riyadhense is a novel non-tuberculous mycobacterium (NTM) that is being increasingly isolated from human clinical cases with tuberculosis (TB)-like symptoms in various parts of the...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 930f996e-39c9-539d-9e48-97d219c701f2
- DOI
- 10.1101/728923
