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© 2006 Noel H. Smith. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited: Smith NH (2006) A Re-Evaluation of M. prototuberculosis . PLoS Pathog 2(9): e98. doi:10.1371/journal.ppat.0020098

Abstract

Abbreviations: MTBC, a subgroup of the M. tuberculosis complex that includes M. tuberculosis, M. africanum, M. pinnipedii, M. microti, M. caprae, and M. bovis It has been suggested that a group of smooth tubercle bacilli, isolated from patients with tuberculosis and associated with Djibouti, East Africa, along with the seven species and subspecies that are traditional members of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex, should be considered a single species. [...]we are left with the fact that the estimator used by Gutierrez et al.

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Title
A Re-Evaluation of M. prototuberculosis
Author
Smith, Noel H
Section
Opinion
Publication year
2006
Publication date
Sep 2006
Publisher
Public Library of Science
ISSN
15537366
e-ISSN
15537374
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
ProQuest document ID
1289022565
Copyright
© 2006 Noel H. Smith. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited: Smith NH (2006) A Re-Evaluation of M. prototuberculosis . PLoS Pathog 2(9): e98. doi:10.1371/journal.ppat.0020098