Evolutionary analysis of Mycobacterium bovis genotypes across Africa suggests co-evolution with livestock and humans

OF Inlamea, P Soares, CY Ikuta… - PLoS neglected …, 2020 - journals.plos.org
Mycobacterium bovis is the pathogenic agent responsible for bovine tuberculosis (bTB), a
zoonotic disease affecting mostly cattle, but also transmittable to humans and wildlife …

Characterization of Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains in Beijing, China: drug susceptibility phenotypes and Beijing genotype family transmission

Y Liu, X Zhang, Y Zhang, Y Sun, C Yao, W Wang… - BMC infectious …, 2018 - Springer
Background The most prevalent strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M. tb) in Beijing
belong to the Beijing genotype family. The influence of Beijing genotype prevalence on the …

A nationwide study of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in Portugal 2014–2017 using epidemiological and molecular clustering analyses

O Oliveira, R Gaio, C Carvalho, M Correia-Neves… - BMC infectious …, 2019 - Springer
Background Increasing multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) incidence is a major
threat against TB eradication worldwide. We aim to conduct a detailed MDR-TB study in …

Evaluation of a gene-by-gene approach for prospective whole-genome sequencing-based surveillance of multidrug resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis

R Macedo, M Pinto, V Borges, A Nunes, O Oliveira… - Tuberculosis, 2019 - Elsevier
Whole-genome sequencing (WGS) offers unprecedented resolution for tracking
Mycobacterium tuberculosis transmission and antibiotic-resistance spread. Still, the …

Evaluating Data Sharing of SARS-CoV-2 Genomes for Molecular Epidemiology across the COVID-19 Pandemic

T Rito, P Fernandes, R Duarte, P Soares - Viruses, 2023 - mdpi.com
Following the emergence of COVID-19 in December 2019, caused by the coronavirus SARS-
CoV-2, the disease spread dramatically worldwide. The use of genomics to trace the …

Evolution and Molecular Characteristics of Mycobacterium tuberculosis and Mycobacterium bovis

T Rito, O Inlamea, O Oliveira, R Duarte… - … : Integrated Studies for a …, 2023 - Springer
In the last decade, a major genomics revolution took place in life and health sciences that
shed light on the biologyand evolution of all living organisms. The pathogenic …

Usefulness of 3'- 5' IS6110-RFLP genotyping and spoligotyping of Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolated in a tertiary hospital: a retrospective study detecting …

SM Almeida, AC Malaspina, CQF Leite… - Revista do Instituto de …, 2019 - SciELO Brasil
ABSTRACT A drug resistance survey involving Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolated from
patients of a tertiary Hospital in the Rio de Janeiro city (RJ), Brazil, between the years 1996 …

[HTML][HTML] Trends of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis clustering in Portugal

R Macedo, R Duarte - ERJ Open Research, 2019 - Eur Respiratory Soc
Trends of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis clustering in Portugal | European Respiratory Society
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[PDF][PDF] Evaluating Data Sharing of SARS-CoV-2 Genomes for Molecular Epidemiology across the COVID-19 Pandemic. Viruses 2023, 15, 560

T Rito, P Fernandes, R Duarte, P Soares - 2023 - researchgate.net
Following the emergence of COVID-19 in December 2019, caused by the coronavirus SARS-
CoV-2, the disease spread dramatically worldwide. The use of genomics to trace the …

Tuberculosis: new era for diagnosis and surveillance using whole-genome sequencing-based approaches

ARF Macedo - 2019 - search.proquest.com
Tuberculosis (TB) has been declared as a global public health emergency by the WHO
since 1993. It still accounts for almost 2 million deaths each year, making it the ninth leading …