To Be or Not to Be a Pseudogene: A Molecular Epidemiological Approach to the mclx Genes and Its Impact in Tuberculosis

• Catarina Lopes Santos ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Catarina Lopes Santos, Hanna Nebenzahl-Guimaraes

  * E-mail: catarinasantos@ecsaude.uminho.pt

  Affiliations Life and Health Sciences Research Institute (ICVS), School of Health Sciences, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal, ICVS/3B’s, PT Government Associate Laboratory, Braga/Guimarães, Portugal

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• Hanna Nebenzahl-Guimaraes ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Catarina Lopes Santos, Hanna Nebenzahl-Guimaraes

  Affiliations Life and Health Sciences Research Institute (ICVS), School of Health Sciences, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal, ICVS/3B’s, PT Government Associate Laboratory, Braga/Guimarães, Portugal, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), Bilthoven, Netherlands

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• Marta Vaz Mendes,

  Affiliation IBMC—Instituto de Biologia Molecular e Celular, Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal

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• Dick van Soolingen,

  Affiliations National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), Bilthoven, Netherlands, Department of Medical Microbiology, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, Nijmegen, Netherlands

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• Margarida Correia-Neves

  Affiliations Life and Health Sciences Research Institute (ICVS), School of Health Sciences, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal, ICVS/3B’s, PT Government Associate Laboratory, Braga/Guimarães, Portugal

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