Tuberculosis has affected humankind for thousands of years, but a deeper understanding of
its cause and transmission only arose after Robert Koch discovered Mycobacterium …

In order to better understand transmission dynamics and appropriately target control and
preventive measures, studies have aimed to identify who-infected-whom in actual outbreaks …

With> 1 million associated deaths in 2020, human tuberculosis (TB) caused by the bacteria
Mycobacterium tuberculosis remains one of the deadliest infectious diseases. A plethora of …

Background SARS-CoV-2 most likely evolved from a bat beta-coronavirus and started
infecting humans in December 2019. Since then it has rapidly infected people around the …

Tuberculosis, caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis, is a high-burden disease in Pakistan,
with multi-drug (MDR) and extensive-drug (XDR) resistance, complicating infection control …

Tuberculosis disease is a major global public health concern and the growing prevalence of
drug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis is making disease control more difficult …

Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR TB), pre-extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (pre-
XDR TB), and extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR TB) complicate disease control …

Detecting factors associated with transmission is important to understand disease
epidemics, and to design effective public health measures. Clustering and terminal branch …

Genomic epidemiology is routinely used worldwide to interrogate infectious disease
dynamics. Multiple computational tools exist that reconstruct transmission networks by …

China, with the third largest share of global tuberculosis cases, faces a substantial challenge
in its healthcare system as a result of the high burden of multidrug-resistant and rifampicin …