The Genome of Mycobacterium Africanum West African 2 Reveals a Lineage-Specific Locus and Genome Erosion Common to the M. tuberculosis Complex

• Stephen D. Bentley,

  Affiliation Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, United Kingdom

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• Iñaki Comas,

  Affiliations Genomics and Health Unit, Centre for Public Health Research, Valencia, Spain, Division of Mycobacterial Research, MRC National Institute for Medical Research, The Ridgeway, Mill Hill, London, United Kingdom

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• Josephine M. Bryant,

  Affiliation Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, United Kingdom

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• Danielle Walker,

  Affiliation Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, United Kingdom

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• Noel H. Smith,

  Affiliation TB Research Group, Veterinary Laboratories Agency (VLA), Weybridge, New Haw, Addlestone, Surrey, United Kingdom and The Centre for the Study of Evolution, University of Sussex, Brighton, United Kingdom

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• Simon R. Harris,

  Affiliation Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, United Kingdom

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• Scott Thurston,

  Affiliation Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, United Kingdom

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• Sebastien Gagneux,

  Affiliations Department of Medical Parasitology and Infection Biology, Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

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• Jonathan Wood,

  Affiliation Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, United Kingdom

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• Martin Antonio,

  Affiliation Vaccinology Theme, MRC Unit, Banjul, The Gambia

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• Michael A. Quail,

  Affiliation Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, United Kingdom

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• Florian Gehre,

  Affiliations Vaccinology Theme, MRC Unit, Banjul, The Gambia, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium

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• Richard A. Adegbola,

  Affiliation Vaccinology Theme, MRC Unit, Banjul, The Gambia

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• Julian Parkhill,

  Affiliation Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, United Kingdom

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• Bouke C. de Jong

  * E-mail: bdejong@itg.be

  Affiliations Vaccinology Theme, MRC Unit, Banjul, The Gambia, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium, New York University, New York, New York, United States of America

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