Evolutionary BiologybioRxiv
Multiple Introductions of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis Lineage 2 Beijing into Africa over centuries
L. K. Rutaihwa, F. Menardo, D. Stucki…·S. Gagneux
This study uses whole genome sequences to show that L2-Beijing tuberculosis strains were introduced multiple times into Africa from East and Southeast Asia over the past 300 years, likely due to hypervirulence and transmissibility.
DOI 10.3389/fevo.2019.00112