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Last Posted: Oct 30, 2019

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• Pre-detection history of extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. 
  Brown Tyler S et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2019 Oct
• Automatic identification of individual rpoB gene mutations responsible for rifampin resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis using melting temperature signatures generated by the Xpert® MTB/RIF Ultra* assay. 
  Cao Yuan et al. Journal of clinical microbiology 2019 Sep
• Genotyping of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Rifampin Resistance Associated Mutations Using Data From Xpert® MTB/RIF Ultra Enables Large-Scale Tuberculosis Molecular Epidemiology Studies. 
  Weinrick Brian et al. Journal of clinical microbiology 2019 Oct
• Whole genome sequencing of drug resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates from a high burden tuberculosis region of North West Pakistan. 
  Jabbar Abdul et al. Scientific reports 2019 Oct (1) 14996
• Early progression to active tuberculosis is a highly heritable trait driven by 3q23 in Peruvians. 
  Luo Yang et al. Nature communications 2019 Aug (1) 3765
• Machine Learning Predicts Accurately Mycobacterium tuberculosis Drug Resistance From Whole Genome Sequencing Data 
  Deelder W, et al. Front Genet, Sep 26, 2019.
• Resolving a clinical tuberculosis outbreak using palaeogenomic genome reconstruction methodologies. 
  Jones Rhys et al. Tuberculosis (Edinburgh, Scotland) 2019 Sep 101865
• Targeted Sequencing Workflows for Comprehensive Drug Resistance Profiling of Mycobacterium tuberculosis cultures using Illumina MiSeq and Nanopore MinION: Comparison of analytical and diagnostic performance, turnaround time and cost 
  Tafess K, bioRxiv, Sep 8, 2019.
• Tuberculosis drug discovery in the CRISPR era. 
  Rock Jeremy et al. PLoS pathogens 2019 Sep (9) e1007975
• A novel Ancestral Beijing sublineage of Mycobacterium tuberculosis suggests the transition site to Modern Beijing sublineages. 
  Ajawatanawong Pravech et al. Scientific reports 2019 Sep (1) 13718