[HTML][HTML] Human tuberculosis and Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex: A review on genetic diversity, pathogenesis and omics approaches in host biomarkers …

RD Kanabalan, LJ Lee, TY Lee, PP Chong… - Microbiological …, 2021 - Elsevier
Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex (MTBC) refers to a group of mycobacteria
encompassing nine members of closely related species that causes tuberculosis in animals …

[HTML][HTML] Infection Sources of a Common Non-tuberculous Mycobacterial Pathogen, Mycobacterium avium Complex

Y Nishiuchi, T Iwamoto, F Maruyama - Frontiers in medicine, 2017 - frontiersin.org
Numerous studies have revealed a continuous increase in the worldwide incidence and
prevalence of non-tuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) diseases, especially pulmonary …

Evaluation of two short standardised regimens for the treatment of rifampicin-resistant tuberculosis (STREAM stage 2): an open-label, multicentre, randomised, non …

RL Goodall, SK Meredith, AJ Nunn, A Bayissa… - The Lancet, 2022 - thelancet.com
Background The STREAM stage 1 trial showed that a 9-month regimen for the treatment of
rifampicin-resistant tuberculosis was non-inferior to the 20-month 2011 WHO-recommended …

Evolutionary history and global spread of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis Beijing lineage

M Merker, C Blin, S Mona, N Duforet-Frebourg… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains of the Beijing lineage are globally distributed and are
associated with the massive spread of multidrug-resistant (MDR) tuberculosis in Eurasia …

A new evolutionary scenario for the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex

R Brosch, SV Gordon, M Marmiesse… - Proceedings of the …, 2002 - National Acad Sciences
The distribution of 20 variable regions resulting from insertion-deletion events in the
genomes of the tubercle bacilli has been evaluated in a total of 100 strains of …

SITVITWEB–a publicly available international multimarker database for studying Mycobacterium tuberculosis genetic diversity and molecular epidemiology

C Demay, B Liens, T Burguière, V Hill, D Couvin… - Infection, genetics and …, 2012 - Elsevier
Among various genotyping methods to study Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex (MTC)
genotypic polymorphism, spoligotyping and mycobacterial interspersed repetitive units …

Proposal for Standardization of Optimized Mycobacterial Interspersed Repetitive Unit-Variable-Number Tandem Repeat Typing of Mycobacterium tuberculosis

P Supply, C Allix, S Lesjean… - Journal of clinical …, 2006 - Am Soc Microbiol
Molecular typing based on 12 loci containing variable numbers of tandem repeats of
mycobacterial interspersed repetitive units (MIRU-VNTRs) has been adopted in combination …

Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex genetic diversity: mining the fourth international spoligotyping database (SpolDB4) for classification, population genetics and …

K Brudey, JR Driscoll, L Rigouts, WM Prodinger… - BMC microbiology, 2006 - Springer
Abstract Background The Direct Repeat locus of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex
(MTC) is a member of the CRISPR (Clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic …

Ancient Origin and Gene Mosaicism of the Progenitor of Mycobacterium tuberculosis

MC Gutierrez, S Brisse, R Brosch, M Fabre… - PLoS …, 2005 - journals.plos.org
The highly successful human pathogen Mycobacterium tuberculosis has an extremely low
level of genetic variation, which suggests that the entire population resulted from clonal …

The transmission of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in high burden settings

TA Yates, PY Khan, GM Knight, JG Taylor… - The Lancet infectious …, 2016 - thelancet.com
Unacceptable levels of Mycobacterium tuberculosis transmission are noted in high burden
settings and a renewed focus on reducing person-to-person transmission in these …