Insertion and deletion evolution reflects antibiotics selection pressure in a Mycobacterium tuberculosis outbreak.

In genome evolution, genetic variants are the source of diversity, which natural selection acts upon. Treatment of human tuberculosis (TB) induces a strong selection pressure for the emergence of antibiotic resistance-conferring variants in the infecting Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) strains. MTB...

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Main Authors: Maxime Godfroid, Tal Dagan, Matthias Merker, Thomas A Kohl, Roland Diel, Florian P Maurer, Stefan Niemann, Anne Kupczok
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2020-09-01
Series:PLoS Pathogens
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1008357