Ecology and evolution of Mycobacterium tuberculosis

Nature Reviews Microbiology 16, 202 (2018). doi:10.1038/nrmicro.2018.8 Author: Sebastien Gagneux Tuberculosis (TB) is the number one cause of human death due to an infectious disease. The causative agents of TB are a group of closely related bacteria known as the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex (MTBC). As the MTBC exhibits a clonal population structure with low
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