Multiple Introductions of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis Lineage 2 Beijing into Africa over centuries
L. K. Rutaihwa, F. Menardo, D. Stucki, S. M. Gygli, S. D. Ley, B. Malla, J. Feldmann, S. Borrell Farnov, C. Beisel, K. Middelkoop, J. E. Carter, L. Diero, M. Ballif, L. Jugheli, K. Reither, , 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.
bioRxiv · Sep 10, 2018Evolutionary Biology