Whole genome sequencing of Mycobacterium tuberculosis: current standards and open issues

CJ Meehan, GA Goig, TA Kohl, L Verboven… - NATURE reviews …, 2019 - nature.com
Whole genome sequencing (WGS) of Mycobacterium tuberculosis has rapidly progressed
from a research tool to a clinical application for the diagnosis and management of …

Evolution and emergence of Mycobacterium tuberculosis

M Orgeur, C Sous, J Madacki… - FEMS Microbiology …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Tuberculosis (TB) remains one of the deadliest infectious diseases in human history,
prevailing even in the 21st century. The causative agents of TB are represented by a group …

Transcontinental spread and evolution of Mycobacterium tuberculosis W148 European/Russian clade toward extensively drug resistant tuberculosis

M Merker, JP Rasigade, M Barbier, H Cox… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Transmission-driven multi-/extensively drug resistant (M/XDR) tuberculosis (TB) is the
largest single contributor to human mortality due to antimicrobial resistance. A few major …

Population-level emergence of bedaquiline and clofazimine resistance-associated variants among patients with drug-resistant tuberculosis in southern Africa: a …

C Nimmo, J Millard, L van Dorp, K Brien… - The Lancet …, 2020 - thelancet.com
Background Bedaquiline and clofazimine are important drugs in the treatment of drug-
resistant tuberculosis and are commonly used across southern Africa, although drug …

The molecular clock of Mycobacterium tuberculosis

F Menardo, S Duchêne, D Brites, S Gagneux - PLoS pathogens, 2019 - journals.plos.org
The molecular clock and its phylogenetic applications to genomic data have changed how
we study and understand one of the major human pathogens, Mycobacterium tuberculosis …

Genomic signatures of pre-resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis

A Torres Ortiz, J Coronel, JR Vidal, C Bonilla… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Recent advances in bacterial whole-genome sequencing have resulted in a comprehensive
catalog of antibiotic resistance genomic signatures in Mycobacterium tuberculosis. With a …

The Mycobacterium tuberculosis genome at 25 years: lessons and lingering questions

BN Koleske, WR Jacobs… - The Journal of clinical …, 2023 - Am Soc Clin Investig
First achieved in 1998 by Cole et al., the complete genome sequence of Mycobacterium
tuberculosis continues to provide an invaluable resource to understand tuberculosis (TB) …

Phylogeography and transmission of Mycobacterium tuberculosis spanning prisons and surrounding communities in Paraguay

GE Sanabria, G Sequera, S Aguirre, J Méndez… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Recent rises in incident tuberculosis (TB) cases in Paraguay and the increasing
concentration of TB within prisons highlight the urgency of targeting strategies to interrupt …

Investigating the composition and recruitment of the mycobacterial ImuA′–ImuB–DnaE2 mutasome

S Gessner, ZAM Martin, MA Reiche, JA Santos… - Elife, 2023 - elifesciences.org
A DNA damage-inducible mutagenic gene cassette has been implicated in the emergence
of drug resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis during anti-tuberculosis (TB) …

A seventeenth-century Mycobacterium tuberculosis genome supports a Neolithic emergence of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex

S Sabin, A Herbig, ÅJ Vågene, T Ahlström, G Bozovic… - Genome biology, 2020 - Springer
Background Although tuberculosis accounts for the highest mortality from a bacterial
infection on a global scale, questions persist regarding its origin. One hypothesis based on …