Mycobacterium tuberculosis progresses through two phases of latent infection in humans

Here, Colangeli et al. use a human household contact cohort to measure the rate of mutation and evolution of Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains and find that long term latency is characterized by reduced mutation rates compared to latency in the first year, coinciding with clinical risk of developin...

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Main Authors: Roberto Colangeli, Aditi Gupta, Solange Alves Vinhas, Uma Deepthi Chippada Venkata, Soyeon Kim, Courtney Grady, Edward C. Jones-López, Patricia Soteropoulos, Moisés Palaci, Patrícia Marques-Rodrigues, Padmini Salgame, Jerrold J. Ellner, Reynaldo Dietze, David Alland
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Language:EN
Published: Nature Portfolio 2020
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Online Access:https://doaj.org/article/c8190181e06b4d39af146506e44cad8c
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