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. 2018 Feb 12;190(6):E162-E166.
doi: 10.1503/cmaj.170846.

The genome, microbiome and evolutionary medicine

Robert C Brunham  1
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The genome, microbiome and evolutionary medicine

Robert C Brunham. CMAJ. .
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Competing interests: None declared.

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Figure 1:
A) Cases of tuberculosis in the outbreak community in British Columbia (blue bars), and the green line represents cocaine-related police files from the RCMP. B) Putative transmission network constructed from whole-genome data for 32 patients shows that two distinct genomic lineages (A and B) produced the outbreak. Note: RCMP = Royal Canadian Mounted Police. From Gardy and colleagues, reproduced with permission.
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