Newly Identified <i>Mycobacterium africanum</i> Lineage 10, Central Africa
Christophe Guyeux, Gaëtan Senelle, Adrien Le Meur, Philip Supply, Cyril Gaudin, Jody Phelan, Taane G. Clark, Leen Rigouts, et al. (11 authors)
Emerging infectious diseases · 2024-02
Abstract
Analysis of genome sequencing data from >100,000 genomes of Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex using TB-Annotator software revealed a previously unknown lineage, proposed name L10, in central Africa. Phylogenetic reconstruction suggests L10 could represent a missing link in the evolutionary and geographic migration histories of M. africanum.
MeSH terms
- Lineage (genetic)
- Phylogenetic tree
- Biology
- Phylogenetics
- Evolutionary biology
- Mycobacterium tuberculosis
- Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex
- Genome
- Whole genome sequencing
- Tuberculosis
- Genetics