A seventeenth-century Mycobacterium tuberculosis genome supports a Neolithic emergence of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex
Abstract Background Although tuberculosis accounts for the highest mortality from a bacterial infection on a global scale, questions persist regarding its origin. One hypothesis based on modern Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex (MTBC) genomes suggests their most recent common ancestor followed huma...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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BMC
2020-08-01
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| Series: | Genome Biology |
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| Online Access: | http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13059-020-02112-1 |