Jean Claude Semuto Ngabonziza, Chloé Loiseau, Michael Marceau, Agathe Jouet, Fabrizio Menardo, Oren Tzfadia, Rudy Antoine, Esdras Belamo Niyigena, Wim Mulders, Kristina Fissette, Maren Diels, Cyril Gaudin, Stéphanie Duthoy, Willy Ssengooba, Emmanuel André, Michel K Kaswa, Yves Mucyo Habimana, Daniela Brites, Dissou Affolabi, Jean Baptiste Mazarati, Bouke Catherine de Jong, Leen Rigouts, Sebastien Gagneux, Conor Joseph Meehan, Philip Supply
The human- and animal-adapted lineages of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex (MTBC) are thought to have expanded from a common progenitor in Africa. However, the molecular events that accompanied this emergence remain largely unknown. Here, we describe two MTBC strains isolated from patients with multidrug resistant tuberculosis, representing an as-yet-unknown lineage, named Lineage 8 (L8), seemingly restricted to the African Great Lakes region. Using genome-based phylogenetic reconstruction, we show that L8 is a sister clade to the known MTBC lineages...
June 9, 2020: Nature Communications