Evolutionary history and global spread of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis Beijing lineage

Merker, Matthias; Blin, Camille; Mona, Stefano; Duforet-Frebourg, Nicolas; Lecher, Sophie; Willery, Eve; G. B. Blum, Michaël; Rüsch–Gerdes, Sabine; Mokrousov, Igor; Aleksic, Eman; Allix‐Béguec, Caroline; Antierens, Annick; Augustynowicz‐Kopeć, Ewa; Ballif, Marie; Barletta, Francesca; Beck, Hans‐Peter; E. Barry, Clifton; Bonnet, Maryline; Borroni, Emanuele; Campos-Herrero, Isolina; María Cirillo, Daniela; Cox, Helen; M. Crowe, Suzanne; Crudu, Valeriu; Diel, Roland; Drobniewski, Francis; Fauville‐Dufaux, Maryse; Gagneux, Sébastien; Ghebremichael, Solomon; Hanekom, M.; Hoffner, Sven; Jiao, Wei-wei; Kalon, Stobdan; A. Kohl, Thomas; Kontsevaya, Irina; Lillebæk, Troels; Maeda, Shinji; Nikolayevskyy, Vladyslav; Rasmussen, Michael; Rastogi, Nalin; Samper, Sofía; Sánchez-Padilla, Elisabeth; Savić, Branislava; Chola Shamputa, Isdore; Shen, Adong; Sng, Li‐Hwei; Stakėnas, Petras; Toit, Kadri; Varaine, Francis; Vuković, Dragana; Wahl, Céline; M. Warren, Robin; Supply, Philip; Niemann, Stefan; Wirth, Thierry

doi:10.1038/ng.3195

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Evolutionary history and global spread of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis Beijing lineage

Published in Nature Genetics • Jan 19, 2015

Authors:

Matthias Merker

Camille Blin

Stefano Mona

Abstract

Thierry Wirth, Philip Supply, Stefan Niemann and colleagues analyze 4,987 Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains of the Beijing lineage isolated from 99 countries. They report whole-genome sequencing of 110 representative strains, characterize global population structure and reconstruct the evolutionary...

Subject

Biology

Lineage (genetic)

Beijing

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