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Tuberculosis

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Last Posted: Aug 15, 2019

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• Utility of targeted, amplicon-based deep sequencing to detect resistance to first-line tuberculosis drugs in Botswana.  
  Wang Qiao et al. Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy 2019 Aug
• Whole-genome sequencing for rapid, reliable and routine investigation of Mycobacterium tuberculosis transmission in local communities.  
  Zakham F et al. New microbes and new infections 2019 Sep 100582
• Whole genome sequencing for improved understanding of Mycobacterium tuberculosis transmission in a remote circumpolar region.  
  Guthrie J L et al. Epidemiology and infection 2019 Jan e188
• Deciphering drug resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis using whole-genome sequencing: progress, promise, and challenges.  
  Cohen Keira A et al. Genome medicine 2019 Jul (1) 45
• Social mixing and clinical features linked with transmission in a network of extensively drug-resistant (XDR) tuberculosis cases in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. 
  Nelson Kristin N et al. Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America 2019 Jul
• A defined antigen skin test for the diagnosis of bovine tuberculosis.  
  Srinivasan Sreenidhi et al. Science advances 2019 Jul (7) eaax4899
• RIPK2 polymorphisms and susceptibility to tuberculosis in a Western Chinese Han population.  
  Song Jiajia et al. Infection, genetics and evolution : journal of molecular epidemiology and evolutionary genetics in infectious diseases 2019 Jul 103950
• Whole genome sequencing provides additional insights into recurrent tuberculosis classified as endogenous reactivation by IS6110 DNA fingerprinting.  
  Dippenaar Anzaan et al. Infection, genetics and evolution : journal of molecular epidemiology and evolutionary genetics in infectious diseases 2019 Jul 103948
• Reference genome and comparative genome analysis for the WHO reference strain for Mycobacterium bovis BCG Danish, the present tuberculosis vaccine.  
  Borgers Katlyn et al. BMC genomics 2019 Jul (1) 561
• Trust and the ethical challenges in the use of whole genome sequencing for tuberculosis surveillance: a qualitative study of stakeholder perspectives.  
  Jackson Carly et al. BMC medical ethics 2019 Jul (1) 43