Abstract:Despite being the number one cause of death from an infectious disease, little is known of the 7 phylogenetic lineages of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb). These lineages are thought to have adapted differently to their human hosts, as they are geographically localised. As a result, they show variation at the phenotype level, such as virulence and the ability to develop antibiotic resistance, and at a genomic level, such as in single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs). We have linked the differences in SNPs betwe… Show more
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