Tracking a tuberculosis outbreak over 21 years: Strain-specific single-nucleotide polymorphism typing combined with targeted whole-genome sequencing

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 211, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 1306-1316

  Stucki, David ^a,b   Ballif, Marie ^c   Bodmer, Thomas ^d,g   Coscolla, Mireia ^a,b   Maurer, Anne Marie ^e   Droz, Sara ^d   Butz, Christa ^e   Borrell, Sonia ^a,b   Längle, Christel ^d   Feldmann, Julia ^a,b   Furrer, Hansjakob ^e   Mordasini, Carlo ^e   Helbling, Peter ^f   Rieder, Hans L ^h,i   Egger, Matthias ^c,j   Gagneux, Sébastien ^a,b   Fenner, Lukas ^a,b,c,k  

^a SWISS TROPICAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^f FEDERAL OFFICE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Switzerland)

^g Labormedizinisches Zentrum Dr Risch   (Switzerland)

^h UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

ⁱ INTERNATIONAL UNION AGAINST TUBERCULOSIS AND LUNG DISEASE   (France)

^j UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^k IFAKARA HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Tanzania)

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Author keywords

genomic epidemiology; outbreak; screening; tuberculosis; whole genome sequencing

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC EPIDEMIOLOGY; GENOME ANALYSIS; GENOTYPE; HOMELESSNESS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SUBSTANCE ABUSE; SWITZERLAND; TUBERCULOSIS; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

BACTERIAL DNA;

ADULT; AGED; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DNA, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SWITZERLAND; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 84926648740     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: 15376613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/infdis/jiu601     Document Type: Conference Paper

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