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SUBMITTER: Ates LS
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6071665 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Ates Louis S LS Dippenaar Anzaan A Sayes Fadel F Pawlik Alexandre A Bouchier Christiane C Ma Laurence L Warren Robin M RM Sougakoff Wladimir W Majlessi Laleh L van Heijst Jeroen W J JWJ Brossier Florence F Brosch Roland R
Genome biology and evolution 20180801 8
Mycobacterium africanum consists of Lineages L5 and L6 of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex (MTBC) and causes human tuberculosis in specific regions of Western Africa, but is generally not transmitted in other parts of the world. Since M. africanum is evolutionarily closely placed between the globally dispersed Mycobacterium tuberculosis and animal-adapted MTBC-members, these lineages provide valuable insight into M. tuberculosis evolution. Here, we have collected 15 M. africanum L5 strains ...[more]