A smooth tubercle bacillus from Ethiopia phylogenetically close to the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex.
Yenew B, Ghodousi A, Diriba G, Tesfaye E, Cabibbe AM, Amare M, Moga S, Alemu A, Dagne B, Sinshaw W, Mollalign H, Meaza A, Tadesse M, Gamtesa DF, Abebaw Y, Seid G, Zerihun B, Getu M, Chiacchiaretta M, Gaudin C, Marceau M, Didelot X, Tolera G, Abdella S, Kebede A, Getahun M, Mehammed Z, Supply P, Cirillo DM.
Yenew B, et al.
Nat Commun. 2023 Nov 18;14(1):7519. doi: 10.1038/s41467-023-42755-9.
Nat Commun. 2023.
PMID: 37980337
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Here, we describe the discovery of a clinical tuberculosis strain isolated in Ethiopia that shares archetypal phenotypic and genomic features of M. canettii strains, but represents a phylogenetic branch much closer to the MTBC clade than to the M. canettii strains. …
Here, we describe the discovery of a clinical tuberculosis strain isolated in Ethiopia that shares archetypal phenotypic and genomic feature …