Large Sequence Polymorphisms Classify Mycobacterium tuberculosis Strains with Ancestral Spoligotyping Patterns

Genomic deletion analysis revealed that strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis exhibiting spoligotyping patterns with almost all spacers present belong either to a strain lineage that includes the W-Beijing strain family or to the ancestral strain lineage of M. tuberculosis.

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Main Authors: Flores, Laura, Van, Tran, Narayanan, Sujatha, DeRiemer, Kathryn, Kato-Maeda, Midori, Gagneux, Sebastien
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: American Society for Microbiology 2007
Subjects:
Mycobacteriology and Aerobic Actinomycetes
Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2045339/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17699643
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1128/JCM.00828-07
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