Ecology and evolution of Mycobacterium tuberculosis

S Gagneux - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2018 - nature.com
Tuberculosis (TB) is the number one cause of human death due to an infectious disease.
The causative agents of TB are a group of closely related bacteria known as the …

Epidemiology, diagnosis & treatment of non-tuberculous mycobacterial diseases

SK Sharma, V Upadhyay - Indian Journal of Medical Research, 2020 - journals.lww.com
Non-tuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) are ubiquitously present in the environment, but NTM
diseases occur infrequently. NTM are generally considered to be less virulent than …

Phylogenomics and Comparative Genomic Studies Robustly Support Division of the Genus Mycobacterium into an Emended Genus Mycobacterium and Four Novel …

RS Gupta, B Lo, J Son - Frontiers in microbiology, 2018 - frontiersin.org
The genus Mycobacterium contains 188 species including several major human pathogens
as well as numerous other environmental species. We report here comprehensive …

A sister lineage of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex discovered in the African Great Lakes region

JCS Ngabonziza, C Loiseau, M Marceau… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
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 …

The new phylogeny of the genus Mycobacterium: the old and the news

E Tortoli, T Fedrizzi, CJ Meehan, A Trovato… - Infection, Genetics and …, 2017 - Elsevier
Background Phylogenetic studies of bacteria have been based so far either on a single
gene (usually the 16S rRNA) or on concatenated housekee** genes. For what concerns …

Disentangling the impact of environmental and phylogenetic constraints on prokaryotic within-species diversity

OM Maistrenko, DR Mende, M Luetge… - The ISME …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Microbial organisms inhabit virtually all environments and encompass a vast biological
diversity. The pangenome concept aims to facilitate an understanding of diversity within …

[HTML][HTML] Non-tuberculous mycobacteria: molecular and physiological bases of virulence and adaptation to ecological niches

AC Pereira, B Ramos, AC Reis, MV Cunha - Microorganisms, 2020 - mdpi.com
Non-tuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) are paradigmatic colonizers of the total environment,
circulating at the interfaces of the atmosphere, lithosphere, hydrosphere, biosphere, and …

The removal of mercury (II) from dilute aqueous solution by activated carbon

CP Huang, DW Blankenship - Water research, 1984 - Elsevier
The results of preliminary screening tests comparing the total Hg (II) removal capacity of 11
different brands of commercial activated carbon indicated that a very high percent (99 …

Reconstituting the genus Mycobacterium

CJ Meehan, RA Barco, YHE Loh… - … of systematic and …, 2021 - microbiologyresearch.org
The definition of a genus has wide-ranging implications both in terms of binomial species
names and also evolutionary relationships. In recent years, the definition of the genus …

Comprehensive subspecies identification of 175 nontuberculous mycobacteria species based on 7547 genomic profiles

Y Matsumoto, T Kinjo, D Motooka… - Emerging microbes & …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
The prevalence of nontuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) pulmonary diseases has been
increasing worldwide. NTM consist of approximately 200 species and distinguishing …