Eldholm, V;
Pettersson, JH-O;
Brynildsrud, OB;
Kitchen, A;
Rasmussen, EM;
Lillebaek, T;
Ronning, JO;
... Balloux, F; + view all
(2016)
Armed conflict and population displacement as drivers of the evolution and dispersal of Mycobacterium tuberculosis.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
, 113
(48)
pp. 13881-13886.
10.1073/pnas.1611283113.
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Abstract
The “Beijing” Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) lineage 2 (L2) is spreading globally and has been associated with accelerated disease progression and increased antibiotic resistance. Here we performed a phylodynamic reconstruction of one of the L2 sublineages, the central Asian clade (CAC), which has recently spread to western Europe. We find that recent historical events have contributed to the evolution and dispersal of the CAC. Our timing estimates indicate that the clade was likely introduced to Afghanistan during the 1979–1989 Soviet–Afghan war and spread further after population displacement in the wake of the American invasion in 2001. We also find that drug resistance mutations accumulated on a massive scale in Mtb isolates from former Soviet republics after the fall of the Soviet Union, a pattern that was not observed in CAC isolates from Afghanistan. Our results underscore the detrimental effects of political instability and population displacement on tuberculosis control and demonstrate the power of phylodynamic methods in exploring bacterial evolution in space and time.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Armed conflict and population displacement as drivers of the evolution and dispersal of Mycobacterium tuberculosis |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1073/pnas.1611283113 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1611283113 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| Keywords: | Science & Technology, Multidisciplinary Sciences, Science & Technology - Other Topics, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, evolution, antimicrobial resistance, phylodynamic analysis, tip-dating, DRUG-RESISTANT TUBERCULOSIS, MUTATION-RATE, TRANSMISSION, GENOMES, TIME, COEXPANSION, INFECTION, INFERENCE, STRAINS, LINEAGE |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Life Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Life Sciences > Div of Biosciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Life Sciences > Div of Biosciences > Genetics, Evolution and Environment |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10047161 |
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