Local adaptive evolution of two distinct clades of Beijing and T families of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in Chongqing: a Bayesian population structure and phylogenetic study

• Main Authors: Peng-Kuan Liang (Author), Chao Zheng (Author), Xiao-Fang Xu (Author), Zhe-Ze Zhao (Author), Chang-Song Zhao (Author), Chang-He Li (Author), David Couvin (Author), Yann Reynaud (Author), Thierry Zozio (Author), Nalin Rastogi (Author), Qun Sun (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2020-06-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Beijing sub-pedigree 2 (BSP2) and T sub-lineage 6 (TSL6) are two clades belonging to Beijing and T family of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB), respectively, defined by Bayesian population structure analysis based on 24-loci mycobacterial interspersed repetitive unit-variable numb...