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 …

Tuberculosis treatment monitoring and outcome measures: new interest and new strategies

J Heyckendorf, SB Georghiou, N Frahm… - Clinical microbiology …, 2022 - Am Soc Microbiol
Despite the advent of new diagnostics, drugs and regimens, tuberculosis (TB) remains a
global public health threat. A significant challenge for TB control efforts has been the …

[HTML][HTML] A sister lineage of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex discovered in the African Great Lakes region

JCS Ngabonziza, C Loiseau, M Marceau… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
The human-and animal-adapted lineages of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex
(MTBC) are thought to have expanded from a common progenitor in Africa. However, the …

Multidrug-resistant and extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis: a threat to global control of tuberculosis

NR Gandhi, P Nunn, K Dheda, HS Schaaf, M Zignol… - The Lancet, 2010 - thelancet.com
Although progress has been made to reduce global incidence of drug-susceptible
tuberculosis, the emergence of multidrug-resistant (MDR) and extensively drug-resistant …

Whole-genome sequencing of rifampicin-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains identifies compensatory mutations in RNA polymerase genes

I Comas, S Borrell, A Roetzer, G Rose, B Malla… - Nature …, 2012 - nature.com
Epidemics of drug-resistant bacteria emerge worldwide, even as resistant strains frequently
have reduced fitness compared to their drug-susceptible counterparts. Data from model …

[HTML][HTML] Human T cell epitopes of Mycobacterium tuberculosis are evolutionarily hyperconserved

I Comas, J Chakravartti, PM Small, J Galagan… - Nature …, 2010 - nature.com
Mycobacterium tuberculosis is an obligate human pathogen capable of persisting in
individual hosts for decades. We sequenced the genomes of 21 strains representative of the …

Host–pathogen coevolution in human tuberculosis

S Gagneux - … Transactions of the Royal Society B …, 2012 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Tuberculosis (TB) is a disease of antiquity. Yet TB today still causes more adult deaths than
any other single infectious disease. Recent studies show that contrary to the common view …

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

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 …

[HTML][HTML] 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 …

[HTML][HTML] Genomic insights into tuberculosis

JE Galagan - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2014 - nature.com
Prevalent since pre-history, human tuberculosis—caused by the pathogen Mycobacterium
tuberculosis—remains a major source of death worldwide. Moreover, increasing drug …