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Volume 19, Number 6—June 2013
Research

Novel Mycobacterium tuberculosis Complex Isolate from a Wild Chimpanzee

Mireia Coscolla, Astrid Lewin, Sonja Metzger, Kerstin Maetz-Rennsing, Sébastien Calvignac-Spencer, Andreas Nitsche, Pjotr Wojtek Dabrowski, Aleksandar Radonic, Stefan Niemann, Julian Parkhill, Emmanuel Couacy-Hymann, Julia Feldman, Iñaki Comas, Christophe Boesch, Sebastien Gagneux1, and Fabian H. Leendertz1Comments to Author 
Author affiliations: Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland (M. Coscolla, J. Feldman, S. Gagneux); University of Basel, Basel (M. Coscolla, J. Feldman, S. Gagneux); Centro Superior de Investigación en Salud Pública, Valencia, Spain (M. Coscolla, I. Comas); Robert Koch-Institut, Berlin, Germany (A. Lewin, S. Metzger, S. Calvignac-Spencer, A. Nitsche, P. Wojtek Dabrowski, A. Radonic, F.H. Leendertz); Max-Planck-Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany (S. Metzger, C. Boesch); German Primate Center, Goettingen, Germany (K. Maetz-Rennsing); Research Centre Borstel, Borstel, Germany (S. Niemann); Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Cambridge, UK (J. Parkhill); Laboratoire Nationale de la Pathologie Animale, Bingerville, Côte d’Ivoire (E. Couacy-Hymann); CIBER in Epidemiology and Public Health, Barcelona, Spain (I. Comas)

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Figure 3

Comparison of the spoligotype of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex chimpanzee strain isolated from an adult female chimpanzee that was found dead in Taï National Park, Côte d’Ivoire, on August 5, 2009 (Chimpanzee Bacillus), with the Afri 1 spoligotype found in the most closely related human strain and the Dassie Bacillus and M. mungi spoligotypes described in (12). Spoligotypes are also shown for M. bovis strain BCG and human lineage 4 strain H37Rv.

Figure 3. . Comparison of the spoligotype of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex chimpanzee strain isolated from an adult female chimpanzee that was found dead in Taï National Park, Côte d’Ivoire, on August 5, 2009 (Chimpanzee Bacillus), with the Afri 1 spoligotype found in the most closely related human strain and the Dassie Bacillus and M. mungi spoligotypes described in (12). Spoligotypes are also shown for M. bovis strain BCG and human lineage 4 strain H37Rv.

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1These authors contributed equally to this article.

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