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Evidence for positive selection on Mycobacterium tuberculosis within patients

BACKGROUND: While the pathogenesis and epidemiology of tuberculosis are well studied, relatively little is known about the evolution of the infectious agent Mycobacterium tuberculosis, especially at the within-host level. The insertion sequence IS6110 is a genetic marker that is widely used to track...

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Autor principal: Tanaka, Mark M
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2004
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC518962/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15355550
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2148-4-31