Armed conflict and population displacement as drivers of the evolution and dispersal of Mycobacterium tuberculosis
Armed conflict and population displacement as drivers of the evolution and dispersal of Mycobacterium tuberculosis
Vegard Eldholm,J. Pettersson,11 Authors,F. Balloux
2016 · DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1611283113
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 70 Citations
TLDR
The results indicate that the fall of the Soviet Union and the ensuing collapse of public health systems led to a rise in M. tuberculosis drug resistance, and recent historical events have contributed to the evolution and dispersal of the central Asian clade (CAC), which has recently spread to western Europe.