Unraveling Mycobacterium tuberculosis genomic diversity and evolution in Lisbon, Portugal, a highly drug resistant setting

BACKGROUND: Multidrug- (MDR) and extensively drug resistant (XDR) tuberculosis (TB) presents a challenge to disease control and elimination goals. In Lisbon, Portugal, specific and successful XDR-TB strains have been found in circulation for almost two decades. RESULTS: In the present study we have...

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Main Author: Perdigão, João (author)
Other Authors: Silva, Hugo (author), Machado, Diana (author), Macedo, Rita (author), Maltez, Fernando (author), Silva, Carla (author), Jordão, Luísa (author), Couto, Isabel (author), Mallard, Kim (author), Coli, Francesc (author), Hill-Cawthorne, Grant A. (author), McNerney, Ruth (author), Pain, Arnab (author), Clark, Taane G. (author), Viveiros, Miguel (author), Portugal, Isabel (author)
Format: article
Language:eng
Published: 2015
Subjects:
Whole Genome Sequencing
MDR-TB
XDR-TB
Lisboa Family
Microevolution
Portugal
Infecções Respiratórias
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10400.18/2931
Country:Portugal
Oai:oai:repositorio.insa.pt:10400.18/2931

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http://hdl.handle.net/10400.18/2931

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