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 …

The epidemiology, pathogenesis, transmission, diagnosis, and management of multidrug-resistant, extensively drug-resistant, and incurable tuberculosis

K Dheda, T Gumbo, G Maartens, KE Dooley… - The lancet Respiratory …, 2017 - thelancet.com
Global tuberculosis incidence has declined marginally over the past decade, and
tuberculosis remains out of control in several parts of the world including Africa and Asia …

Rapid scoring of genes in microbial pan-genome-wide association studies with Scoary

O Brynildsrud, J Bohlin, L Scheffer, V Eldholm - Genome biology, 2016 - Springer
Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have become indispensable in human medicine
and genomics, but very few have been carried out on bacteria. Here we introduce Scoary …

Antimicrobial resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis: mechanistic and evolutionary perspectives

SM Gygli, S Borrell, A Trauner… - FEMS microbiology …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Antibiotic-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains are threatening progress in
containing the global tuberculosis epidemic. Mycobacterium tuberculosis is intrinsically …

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 …

Whole-genome sequencing for prediction of Mycobacterium tuberculosis drug susceptibility and resistance: a retrospective cohort study

TM Walker, TA Kohl, SV Omar, J Hedge… - The Lancet infectious …, 2015 - thelancet.com
Background Diagnosing drug-resistance remains an obstacle to the elimination of
tuberculosis. Phenotypic drug-susceptibility testing is slow and expensive, and commercial …

Within-host evolution of bacterial pathogens

X Didelot, AS Walker, TE Peto, DW Crook… - Nature Reviews …, 2016 - nature.com
Whole-genome sequencing has opened the way for investigating the dynamics and
genomic evolution of bacterial pathogens during the colonization and infection of humans …

Same-day diagnostic and surveillance data for tuberculosis via whole-genome sequencing of direct respiratory samples

AA Votintseva, P Bradley, L Pankhurst… - Journal of clinical …, 2017 - Am Soc Microbiol
Routine full characterization of Mycobacterium tuberculosis is culture based, taking many
weeks. Whole-genome sequencing (WGS) can generate antibiotic susceptibility profiles to …

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 …

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 …