Exploring the "Latin American Mediterranean" family and the RDRio lineage in Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates from Paraguay, Argentina and Venezuela.
Chyntia Carolina Díaz AcostaGraciela RussomandoNorma CandiaViviana RitaccoSidra E G VasconcellosMarcia de Berrêdo Pinho MoreiraNilda J de RomeroNora MorcilloJacobus Henri De WaardHarrison Magdinier GomesPhilip Noel SuffysPublished in: BMC microbiology (2019)
Our results suggest a differential adaptation of LAM-sublineages in neighboring populations and that RDRio strains spread regionally with different rates of distribution. The Ag85C SNP and RDs (RD174, RDRio) tested in this study can in fact facilitate molecular epidemiological studies of LAM strains in endemic settings and low-income countries.