Genomic analyses of the ancestral Manila family of Mycobacterium tuberculosis.

With its airborne transmission and prolonged latency period, Mycobacterium tuberculosis spreads worldwide as one of the most successful bacterial pathogens and continues to kill millions of people every year. M. tuberculosis lineage 1 is inferred to originate ancestrally based on the presence of the...

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Main Authors: Xuehua Wan, Kent Koster, Lishi Qian, Edward Desmond, Richard Brostrom, Shaobin Hou, James T Douglas
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2017-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5386241?pdf=render