Whole Genome Sequencing of Mycobacterium africanum Strains from Mali Provides Insights into the Mechanisms of Geographic Restriction

• Kathryn Winglee ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Kathryn Winglee, Abigail Manson McGuire

  Affiliation Center for Tuberculosis Research, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

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• Abigail Manson McGuire ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Kathryn Winglee, Abigail Manson McGuire

  Affiliation Genome Sequencing and Analysis Program, The Broad Institute of MIT & Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Mamoudou Maiga,

  Current address: National Institute of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

  Affiliations Center for Tuberculosis Research, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Project SEREFO (Centre de Recherche et de Formation sur le VIH/Sida et la Tuberculose)/University of Sciences, Technics and Technologies of Bamako (USTTB), Bamako, Mali

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• Thomas Abeel,

  Affiliations Genome Sequencing and Analysis Program, The Broad Institute of MIT & Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, Delft Bioinformatics Lab, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands

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• Terrance Shea,

  Affiliation Genome Sequencing and Analysis Program, The Broad Institute of MIT & Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Christopher A. Desjardins,

  Affiliation Genome Sequencing and Analysis Program, The Broad Institute of MIT & Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Bassirou Diarra,

  Affiliation Project SEREFO (Centre de Recherche et de Formation sur le VIH/Sida et la Tuberculose)/University of Sciences, Technics and Technologies of Bamako (USTTB), Bamako, Mali

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• Bocar Baya,

  Affiliation Project SEREFO (Centre de Recherche et de Formation sur le VIH/Sida et la Tuberculose)/University of Sciences, Technics and Technologies of Bamako (USTTB), Bamako, Mali

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• Moumine Sanogo,

  Affiliation Project SEREFO (Centre de Recherche et de Formation sur le VIH/Sida et la Tuberculose)/University of Sciences, Technics and Technologies of Bamako (USTTB), Bamako, Mali

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• Souleymane Diallo,

  Affiliation Project SEREFO (Centre de Recherche et de Formation sur le VIH/Sida et la Tuberculose)/University of Sciences, Technics and Technologies of Bamako (USTTB), Bamako, Mali

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• Ashlee M. Earl ,

  * E-mail: aearl@broadinstitute.org (AME); wbishai1@jhmi.edu (WRB)

  Affiliation Genome Sequencing and Analysis Program, The Broad Institute of MIT & Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• William R. Bishai

  * E-mail: aearl@broadinstitute.org (AME); wbishai1@jhmi.edu (WRB)

  Affiliation Center for Tuberculosis Research, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

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