Extensive Homoplasy but No Evidence of Convergent Evolution of Repeat Numbers at MIRU Loci in Modern Mycobacterium tuberculosis Lineages

• Main Authors: Alexander C. Outhred (Author), Ulziijargal Gurjav (Author), Peter Jelfs (Author), Nadine McCallum (Author), Qinning Wang (Author), Grant A. Hill-Cawthorne (Author), Ben J. Marais (Author), Vitali Sintchenko (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Frontiers Media S.A., 2020-08-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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More human deaths have been attributable to Mycobacterium tuberculosis than any other pathogen, and the epidemic is sustained by ongoing transmission. Various typing schemes have been developed to identify strain-specific differences and track transmission dynamics in affected communities, with rece...