Tuberculosis (TB) is the number one cause of human death due to an infectious disease.
The causative agents of TB are a group of closely related bacteria known as the …

The causative agent of human tuberculosis (TB), M ycobacterium tuberculosis, is an obligate
pathogen that evolved to exclusively persist in human populations. For M. tuberculosis to …

Generalist and specialist species differ in the breadth of their ecological niches. Little is
known about the niche width of obligate human pathogens. Here we analyzed a global …

Modern strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis from the Americas are closely related to those
from Europe, supporting the assumption that human tuberculosis was introduced post …

To examine the transmission dynamics of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) isolated from
tuberculosis patients in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, we sequenced the whole genomes of …

Prevalent since pre-history, human tuberculosis—caused by the pathogen Mycobacterium
tuberculosis—remains a major source of death worldwide. Moreover, increasing drug …

The molecular clock and its phylogenetic applications to genomic data have changed how
we study and understand one of the major human pathogens, Mycobacterium tuberculosis …

Molecular typing has revolutionized epidemiological studies of infectious diseases,
including those of a mycobacterial etiology. With the advent of fingerprinting techniques …

The human pathogen Mycobacterium tuberculosis typically causes lung disease but can
also disseminate to other tissues. We identified a M. tuberculosis (Mtb) outbreak presenting …

Members of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex (MTBC) cause a serious disease with
similar pathology, tuberculosis; in this review, bovine tuberculosis will be considered as …