title: Human host range of Mycobacterium tuberculosis.
abstract: A new study demonstrates that the most widespread lineage of the causative agent of tuberculosis consists of both globally distributed and geographically restricted sublineages. The geographically restricted sublineages are likely able to infect only specific human populations, whereas the globally distributed ones likely have a broader human host range.
authors.affiliation: Rachel and Menachem Mendelovitch Evolutionary Processes of Mutation and Natural Selection Research Laboratory, Department of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Ruth and Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel.
authors.forename: Ruth
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Hershberg
mesh_terms: D005838:Genotype; D058507:Host Specificity; D006801:Humans; D009169:Mycobacterium tuberculosis; D014376:Tuberculosis / Q000382:microbiology