The relationship between transmission time and clustering methods in Mycobacterium tuberculosis epidemiology

EBioMedicine

Volumn 37, Issue , 2018, Pages 410-416

  Meehan, Conor J ^a   Moris, Pieter ^a,b   Kohl, Thomas A ^c,d   Pečerska, Jūlija ^e   Akter, Suriya ^a   Merker, Matthias ^c,d   Utpatel, Christian ^c,d   Beckert, Patrick ^c,d   Gehre, Florian ^a,f,g   Lempens, Pauline ^a   Stadler, Tanja ^e   Kaswa, Michel K ^a,i   Kühnert, Denise ^h   Niemann, Stefan ^c,d   de Jong, Bouke C ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^c Research Center Borstel   (Germany)

^d RESEARCH CENTER BORSTEL   (Germany)

^e SWISS INSTITUTE OF BIOINFORMATICS   (Switzerland)

^f Medical Research Council The Gambia Unit Fajara   (Gambia)

^g BERNHARD NOCHT INSTITUTE FOR TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Germany)

^h MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR THE SCIENCE OF HUMAN HISTORY   (Germany)

ⁱ National Tuberculosis Program   (Democratic Republic Congo)

Author keywords

MDR TB molecular epidemiology; MIRU VNTR; MLST; Mycobacterium tuberculosis; Outbreak detection; Spoligotyping; Transmission; Whole genome sequencing

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; DNA EXTRACTION; GENETIC PROCEDURES; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPING TECHNIQUE; HUMAN; MULTIDRUG RESISTANT TUBERCULOSIS; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SPOLIGOTYPING; TUBERCULOSIS; VARIABLE NUMBER OF TANDEM REPEAT; WHOLE GENOME SEQUENCING; ALLELE; BACTERIAL GENOME; DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC CONGO; FEMALE; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; MALE; TRANSMISSION;

ALLELES; DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO; FEMALE; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GENOTYPE; GENOTYPING TECHNIQUES; HUMANS; MALE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 85054856853     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23523964     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ebiom.2018.10.013     Document Type: Article

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