Whole-Genome Sequencing of Drug-Resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis Strains, Tunisia, 2012–2016
Imen Bouzouita
, Andrea Maurizio Cabibbe, Alberto Trovato, Henda Daroui, Asma Ghariani, Basma Midouni, Leila Essalah, Emna Mehiri, Daniela Maria Cirillo, and Leila Slim Saidi
Author affiliations: National Reference Laboratory for Mycobacteria, Ariana, Tunisia (I. Bouzouita, H. Daroui, A. Ghariani, B. Midouni, L. Essalah, E. Mehiri, L. Slim Saidi); University of Tunis El Manar, Tunis, Tunisia (I. Bouzouita, B. Midouni); San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy (A.M. Cabibbe, A. Trovato, D.M. Cirillo); University of Monastir, Monastir, Tunisia (A. Ghariani, E. Mehiri, L. Slim Saidi)
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Figure 2. Core-genome multilocus sequence typing–based minimum spanning tree for strains identified during study of drug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis, Tunisia, 2012–2016. Ridom SeqSphere+ minimum spanning tree for 46 samples based on 2,891 columns, pairwise ignoring missing values, logarithmic scale. Cluster distance threshold = 5 alleles. Colors indicate regions and countries of patient origin.
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