The pe/ppe genes represent one of the most intriguing aspects of the M ycobacterium
tuberculosis genome. These genes are especially abundant in pathogenic mycobacteria …

Molecular typing has revolutionized epidemiological studies of infectious diseases,
including those of a mycobacterial etiology. With the advent of fingerprinting techniques …

Soil microbiota represent one of the ancient evolutionary origins of antibiotic resistance and
have been proposed as a reservoir of resistance genes available for exchange with clinical …

Insertion sequences (IS) are simple transposons implicated in the genome evolution of
diverse pathogenic bacterial species. Enterococci have emerged as important human …

The insertion Sequence IS 6110, only present in the pathogens of the Mycobacterium
tuberculosis Complex (MTBC), has been the gold-standard epidemiological marker for TB …

Strong evidence supports the idea that fatty acids rather than carbohydrates are the main
energy source of Mycobacterium tuberculosis during infection and latency. Despite that …

Introduction Around 10% of the coding potential of Mycobacterium tuberculosis is constituted
by two poorly understood gene families, the pe and ppe loci, thought to be involved in host …

Insertion sequence (IS) 6110 is found at multiple sites in the Mycobacterium tuberculosis
genome and displays a high degree of polymorphism with respect to copy number and …

Abstract Background Mycobacterium tuberculosis Beijing strains are characterized by a
large number of IS 6110 copies, suggesting the potential implication of this element in the …

IS 6110 is an insertion sequence found in the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex, to which
Mycobacterium bovis belongs, which can play a role in genome plasticity and in bacterial …