Genomic epidemiology of multidrug-resistant mycobacterium tuberculosis during transcontinental spread

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 212, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 302-310

  Coscolla, Mireia ^a,b   Barry, Pennan M ^c   Oeltmann, John E ^f   Koshinsky, Heather ^d   Shaw, Tambi ^c   Cilnis, Martin ^c   Posey, Jamie ^f   Rose, Jordan ^e   Weber, Terry ^c   Fofanov, Viacheslav Y ^d   Gagneux, Sebastien ^a,b   Kato Maeda, Midori ^e   Metcalfe, John Z ^e  

^a SWISS TROPICAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^c NATL CENTER FOR INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^d Eureka Genomics   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

Author keywords

drug resistance; EmbR; epidemiology; genomics; Mycobacterium tuberculosis

Indexed keywords

CAPREOMYCIN; ETHAMBUTOL; ISONIAZID; PYRAZINAMIDE; RIFAMPICIN; STREPTOMYCIN;

ADULT; ALLELE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ANTITUBERCULOSIS DRUG SUSCEPTIBILITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL PHENOMENA AND FUNCTIONS; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BEIJING STRAIN; CELL LINEAGE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE DURATION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIC; FITNESS; GENE DELETION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC EPIDEMIOLOGY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; IMMIGRANT; INTERSPERSED REPEAT; MULTIDRUG RESISTANT TUBERCULOSIS; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFUGEE; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SPOLIGOTYPE; THAILAND; TRANSCONTINENTAL SPREAD; UNITED STATES; VARIABLE NUMBER OF TANDEM REPEAT; WAT THAM KRABOK STRAIN; BACTERIAL GENOME; GENETICS; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MOLECULAR TYPING; TUBERCULOSIS, MULTIDRUG-RESISTANT;

CALIFORNIA; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MOLECULAR TYPING; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; PREVALENCE; THAILAND; TUBERCULOSIS, MULTIDRUG-RESISTANT;

EID: 84936857634     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: 15376613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/infdis/jiv025     Document Type: Article

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