Mutations in the regulatory network underlie the recent clonal expansion of a dominant subclone of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis Beijing genotype

Infection, Genetics and Evolution

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 587-597

  Schürch, Anita C ^a,f   Kremer, Kristin ^a   Warren, Robin M ^b   Hung, Nguyen V ^c   Zhao, Yanlin ^d   Wan, Kanglin ^e   Boeree, Martin J ^f   Siezen, Roland J ^f   Smith, Noel H ^g,h   van Soolingen, Dick ^a,f  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (Netherlands)

^b STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^c National Lung Hospital   (Viet Nam)

^d DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH   (Hong Kong)

^e CHINESE CENTER FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (China)

^f RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^g VETERINARY LABORATORIES AGENCY   (United Kingdom)

^h UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Beijing W genotype; Mycobacterium tuberculosis; Phylogeny; Single nucleotide polymorphism typing; Whole genome sequencing

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CLONAL SPECIES; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE CLUSTER; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GENETIC IDENTIFICATION; GENOME ANALYSIS; GENOTYPE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MOLECULAR CLONING; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; GENETIC SPECIATION; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTATION, MISSENSE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; TUBERCULOSIS, PULMONARY;

MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 79953103136     PISSN: 15671348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.meegid.2011.01.009     Document Type: Article

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