Evolution and emergence of Mycobacterium tuberculosis

M Orgeur, C Sous, J Madacki… - FEMS Microbiology …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Tuberculosis (TB) remains one of the deadliest infectious diseases in human history,
prevailing even in the 21st century. The causative agents of TB are represented by a group …

The Mycobacterium tuberculosis genome at 25 years: lessons and lingering questions

BN Koleske, WR Jacobs… - The Journal of clinical …, 2023 - Am Soc Clin Investig
First achieved in 1998 by Cole et al., the complete genome sequence of Mycobacterium
tuberculosis continues to provide an invaluable resource to understand tuberculosis (TB) …

A sister lineage of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex discovered in the African Great Lakes region

JCS Ngabonziza, C Loiseau, M Marceau… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
The human-and animal-adapted lineages of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex
(MTBC) are thought to have expanded from a common progenitor in Africa. However, the …

Mycobacterium abscessus pathogenesis identified by phenogenomic analyses

L Boeck, S Burbaud, M Skwark, WH Pearson… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
The medical and scientific response to emerging and established pathogens is often
severely hampered by ignorance of the genetic determinants of virulence, drug resistance …

An ancestral mycobacterial effector promotes dissemination of infection

JW Saelens, MI Sweeney, G Viswanathan, AM Xet-Mull… - Cell, 2022 - cell.com
The human pathogen Mycobacterium tuberculosis typically causes lung disease but can
also disseminate to other tissues. We identified a M. tuberculosis (Mtb) outbreak presenting …

Bradyrhizobium ottawaense efficiently reduces nitrous oxide through high nosZ gene expression

S Wasai-Hara, M Itakura, A Fernandes Siqueira… - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
N2O is an important greenhouse gas influencing global warming, and agricultural land is the
predominant (anthropogenic) source of N2O emissions. Here, we report the high N2O …

Lipoarabinomannan as a point-of-care assay for diagnosis of tuberculosis: how far are we to use it?

J Flores, JC Cancino, L Chavez-Galan - Frontiers in microbiology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Tuberculosis (TB) is still a severe public health problem; the current diagnostic tests have
limitations that delay treatment onset. Lipoarabinomannan (LAM) is a glycolipid that is a …

Comprehensive analysis of Mycobacterium tuberculosis genomes reveals genetic variations in bacterial virulence

W Worakitchanon, H Yanai, P Piboonsiri, R Miyahara… - Cell Host & Microbe, 2024 - cell.com
Tuberculosis, a disease caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb), is a significant health
problem worldwide. Here, we developed a method to detect large insertions and deletions …

Tuberculosis diagnostics: overcoming ancient challenges with modern solutions

M MacGregor-Fairlie, S Wilkinson… - Emerging topics in …, 2020 - portlandpress.com
Rapid, sensitive, accurate and portable diagnostics are a mainstay of modern medicine.
Tuberculosis is a disease that has been with us since time immemorial and, despite the fact …

Origin and Global Expansion of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Complex Lineage 3

YA Shuaib, C Utpatel, TA Kohl, I Barilar, M Diricks… - Genes, 2022 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Tuberculosis still causes 1.5 million deaths annually and is mainly caused
by Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex strains belonging to three evolutionary modern …