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Fabre M et al. (2004) Fabre, M., Koeck, J.L., Le Fleche, P., Simon, F., Herve, V., Vergnaud, G., and Pourcel, C. "High genetic diversity revealed by variable-number tandem repeat genotyping and analysis of hsp65 gene polymorphism in a large collection of 'Mycobacterium canettii' strains indicates that the M. tuberculosis complex is a recently emerged clone of 'M. canettii'." J. Clin. Microbiol. (2004) 42:3248-3255.

Riojas MA et al. (2018) Riojas, M.A., McGough, K.J., Rider-Riojas, C.J., Rastogi, N., and Hazbon, M.H. "Phylogenomic analysis of the species of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex demonstrates that Mycobacterium africanum, Mycobacterium bovis, Mycobacterium caprae, Mycobacterium microti and Mycobacterium pinnipedii are later heterotypic synonyms of Mycobacterium tuberculosis." Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol. (2018) 68:324-332.

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Reference: How to cite this resource - Schoch CL, et al. NCBI Taxonomy: a comprehensive update on curation, resources and tools. Database (Oxford). 2020: baaa062. PubMed: 32761142 PMC: PMC7408187.