The epidemiology, pathogenesis, transmission, diagnosis, and management of multidrug-resistant, extensively drug-resistant, and incurable tuberculosis

K Dheda, T Gumbo, G Maartens, KE Dooley… - The lancet Respiratory …, 2017 - thelancet.com
Global tuberculosis incidence has declined marginally over the past decade, and
tuberculosis remains out of control in several parts of the world including Africa and Asia …

Clinical use of whole genome sequencing for Mycobacterium tuberculosis

AA Witney, CA Cosgrove, A Arnold, J Hinds, NG Stoker… - BMC medicine, 2016 - Springer
Drug-resistant tuberculosis (TB) remains a major challenge to global health and to
healthcare in the UK. In 2014, a total of 6,520 cases of TB were recorded in England, of …

CRISPRi chemical genetics and comparative genomics identify genes mediating drug potency in Mycobacterium tuberculosis

S Li, NC Poulton, JS Chang, ZA Azadian… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) infection is notoriously difficult to treat. Treatment efficacy
is limited by Mtb's intrinsic drug resistance, as well as its ability to evolve acquired resistance …

Precise phylogenetic analysis of microbial isolates and genomes from metagenomes using PhyloPhlAn 3.0

F Asnicar, AM Thomas, F Beghini, C Mengoni… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Microbial genomes are available at an ever-increasing pace, as cultivation and sequencing
become cheaper and obtaining metagenome-assembled genomes (MAGs) becomes more …

The 2021 WHO catalogue of Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex mutations associated with drug resistance: a genotypic analysis

TM Walker, P Miotto, CU Köser, PW Fowler… - The Lancet …, 2022 - thelancet.com
Background Molecular diagnostics are considered the most promising route to achievement
of rapid, universal drug susceptibility testing for Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex …

Genome-based prediction of bacterial antibiotic resistance

M Su, SW Satola, TD Read - Journal of clinical microbiology, 2019 - Am Soc Microbiol
Clinical microbiology has long relied on growing bacteria in culture to determine
antimicrobial susceptibility profiles, but the use of whole-genome sequencing for antibiotic …

Building a tuberculosis-free world: The Lancet Commission on tuberculosis

MJA Reid, N Arinaminpathy, A Bloom, BR Bloom… - The Lancet, 2019 - thelancet.com
Executive summary Tuberculosis can be treated, prevented, and cured. Rapid, sustained
declines in tuberculosis deaths in many countries during the past 50 years provide …

Prediction of susceptibility to first-line tuberculosis drugs by DNA sequencing

CRyPTIC Consortium and the 100,000 … - … England Journal of …, 2018 - Mass Medical Soc
Abstract Background The World Health Organization recommends drug-susceptibility testing
of Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex for all patients with tuberculosis to guide treatment …

Stepwise pathogenic evolution of Mycobacterium abscessus

JM Bryant, KP Brown, S Burbaud, I Everall… - Science, 2021 - science.org
INTRODUCTION Nearly all mycobacterial species are free-living environmental
saprophytes. A few, such as Mycobacterium tuberculosis, have evolved to cause …

Advances in molecular diagnosis of tuberculosis

E MacLean, M Kohli, SF Weber, A Suresh… - Journal of clinical …, 2020 - Am Soc Microbiol
Molecular tests for tuberculosis (TB) have the potential to help reach the three million people
with TB who are undiagnosed or not reported each year and to improve the quality of care …