| turkish and japanese mycobacterium tuberculosis sublineages share a remote common ancestor. | two geographically distant m. tuberculosis sublineages, tur from turkey and t3-osaka from japan, exhibit partially identical genotypic signatures (identical 12-loci miru-vntr profiles, distinct spoligotyping patterns). we investigated t3-osaka and tur sublineages characteristics and potential genetic relatedness, first using miru-vntr locus analysis on 21 and 25 samples of each sublineage respectively, and second comparing whole genome sequences of 8 new samples to public data from 45 samples un ... | 2016 | 27746295 |