Population Genomics of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in Ethiopia Contradicts the Virgin Soil Hypothesis for Human Tuberculosis in Sub-Saharan Africa

Colonial medical reports claimed that tuberculosis (TB) was largely unknown in Africa prior to European contact, providing a “virgin soil” for spread of TB in highly susceptible populations previously unexposed to the disease [1, 2]. This is in direct contrast to recent phylogenetic models which sup...

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Autores principales: Comas, Iñaki, Hailu, Elena, Kiros, Teklu, Bekele, Shiferaw, Mekonnen, Wondale, Gumi, Balako, Tschopp, Rea, Ameni, Gobena, Hewinson, R. Glyn, Robertson, Brian D., Goig, Galo A., Stucki, David, Gagneux, Sebastien, Aseffa, Abraham, Young, Douglas, Berg, Stefan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cell Press 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4691238/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26687624
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2015.10.061

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