Ecology and evolution of Mycobacterium tuberculosis

S Gagneux - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2018 - nature.com
Tuberculosis (TB) is the number one cause of human death due to an infectious disease.
The causative agents of TB are a group of closely related bacteria known as the …

Pathogenicity and virulence of Mycobacterium tuberculosis

KC Rahlwes, BRS Dias, PC Campos… - Virulence, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) is the causative agent of tuberculosis, an infectious
disease with one of the highest morbidity and mortality rates worldwide. Leveraging its …

Genome-wide analysis of multi- and extensively drug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis

F Coll, J Phelan, GA Hill-Cawthorne, MB Nair… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
To characterize the genetic determinants of resistance to antituberculosis drugs, we
performed a genome-wide association study (GWAS) of 6,465 Mycobacterium tuberculosis …

Mycobacterium tuberculosis lineage 4 comprises globally distributed and geographically restricted sublineages

D Stucki, D Brites, L Jeljeli, M Coscolla, Q Liu… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
Generalist and specialist species differ in the breadth of their ecological niches. Little is
known about the niche width of obligate human pathogens. Here we analyzed a global …

A sister lineage of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex discovered in the African Great Lakes region

JCS Ngabonziza, C Loiseau, M Marceau… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
The human-and animal-adapted lineages of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex
(MTBC) are thought to have expanded from a common progenitor in Africa. However, the …

Global diversity and antimicrobial resistance of typhoid fever pathogens: Insights from a meta-analysis of 13,000 Salmonella Typhi genomes

ME Carey, ZA Dyson, DJ Ingle, A Amir, MK Aworh… - Elife, 2023 - elifesciences.org
Background: The Global Typhoid Genomics Consortium was established to bring together
the typhoid research community to aggregate and analyse Salmonella enterica serovar …

Systematic review of mutations associated with resistance to the new and repurposed Mycobacterium tuberculosis drugs bedaquiline, clofazimine, linezolid …

S Kadura, N King, M Nakhoul, H Zhu… - Journal of …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Background Improved genetic understanding of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB)
resistance to novel and repurposed anti-tubercular agents can aid the development of rapid …

Robust barcoding and identification of Mycobacterium tuberculosis lineages for epidemiological and clinical studies

G Napier, S Campino, Y Merid, M Abebe… - Genome medicine, 2020 - Springer
Background Tuberculosis, caused by bacteria in the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex
(MTBC), is a major global public health burden. Strain-specific genomic diversity in the …

Rapid determination of anti-tuberculosis drug resistance from whole-genome sequences

F Coll, R McNerney, MD Preston… - Genome medicine, 2015 - Springer
Mycobacterium tuberculosis drug resistance (DR) challenges effective tuberculosis disease
control. Current molecular tests examine limited numbers of mutations, and although whole …

Assessment of epidemiological and genetic characteristics and clinical outcomes of resistance to bedaquiline in patients treated for rifampicin-resistant tuberculosis: a …

NA Ismail, SV Omar, H Moultrie, Z Bhyat… - The Lancet Infectious …, 2022 - thelancet.com
Background Bedaquiline improves outcomes of patients with rifampicin-resistant and
multidrug-resistant (MDR) tuberculosis; however, emerging resistance threatens this …