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SUBMITTER: Shea J
PROVIDER: S-EPMC9239888 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Shea Joseph J Smith Carol C Halse Tanya A TA Kohlerschmidt Donna D Rourke Amy K AK Musser Kimberlee A KA Escuyer Vincent V Lapierre Pascal P
Emerging infectious diseases 20220701 7
We report the unusual genotypic characterization of a bacterium isolated from a clinical sample of a patient who grew up in Bangladesh and lives in the United States. Using whole-genome sequencing, we identified the bacterium as a member of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex (MTBC). Phylogenetic placement of this strain suggests a new MTBC genotype. Even though it had the same spoligotype as M. caprae strains, single-nucleotide polymorphism-based phylogenetic analysis placed the isolate as a ...[more]