2013-06-01Zeitschriftenartikel
Novel Mycobacterium tuberculosis Complex Isolate from a Wild Chimpanzee
Coscolla, Mireia; Lewin, Astrid; Metzger, Sonja; Mätz-Rennsing, Kerstin; Calvignac-Spencer, Sébastien; Nitsche, Andreas; Dabrowski, Piotr Wojtek; Radonić, Aleksandar; Niemann, Stefan; Parkhill, Julian; Couacy-Hymann, Emmanuel; Feldman, Julia; Comas, Iñaki; Boesch, Christophe; Gagneux, Sebastien; Leendertz, Fabian
Tuberculosis (TB) is caused by gram-positive bacteria known as the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex (MTBC). MTBC include several human-associated lineages and several variants adapted to domestic and, more rarely, wild ...