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A seventeenth-century Mycobacterium tuberculosis genome supports a Neolithic emergence of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex

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 human migrat...

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Autores principales: Sabin, Susanna, Herbig, Alexander, Vågene, Åshild J., Ahlström, Torbjörn, Bozovic, Gracijela, Arcini, Caroline, Kühnert, Denise, Bos, Kirsten I.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7418204/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32778135
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13059-020-02112-1