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 …

Tuberculosis (TB) is a disease of antiquity. Yet TB today still causes more adult deaths than
any other single infectious disease. Recent studies show that contrary to the common view …

The genus Mycobacterium contains several slow-growing human pathogens, including
Mycobacterium tuberculosis, Mycobacterium leprae, and Mycobacterium avium …

Tuberculosis (TB) affects humans and other animals and is caused by bacteria from the
Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex (MTBC). Previous studies have shown that there are at …

New tools for controlling tuberculosis are urgently needed. Despite our emerging
understanding of the biogeography of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the implications for …

Mycobacterium tuberculosis infects one third of the human world population and kills
someone every 15 seconds. For more than a century, scientists and clinicians have been …

The earth contains a huge number of largely uncharacterized Bacteria and Archaea.
Microbiologists are struggling to summarize their genetic diversity and classify them, which …

Mycobacterium bovis is a pathogen of significant importance in livestock and a wide range
of wild animal species worldwide. It is also known to cause tuberculosis disease in humans …

Genetically monomorphic bacteria contain so little sequence diversity that sequencing a few
gene fragments yields little or no information. As a result, our understanding of their …