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TY - JOUR AU - Comas, Iñaki AU - Chakravartti, Jaidip AU - Small, Peter M AU - Galagan, James AU - Niemann, Stefan AU - Kremer, Kristin AU - Ernst, Joel D AU - Gagneux, Sebastien PY - 2010 DA - 2010/06/01 TI - Human T cell epitopes of Mycobacterium tuberculosis are evolutionarily hyperconserved JO - Nature Genetics SP - 498 EP - 503 VL - 42 IS - 6 AB - Sebastien Gagneux and colleagues report the genome sequences of 21 phylogeographically diverse Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex strains. Analysis of the global genetic diversity of these strains showed that most of the known human T cell epitopes were highly conserved. SN - 1546-1718 UR - https://doi.org/10.1038/ng.590 DO - 10.1038/ng.590 ID - Comas2010 ER -