2018
Towards better prediction of Mycobacterium tuberculosis lineages from MIRU-VNTR data
Thain N, Le C, Crossa A, Ahuja SD, Meissner JS, Mathema B, Kreiswirth B, Kurepina N, Cohen T, Chindelevitch L. Towards better prediction of Mycobacterium tuberculosis lineages from MIRU-VNTR data. Infection Genetics And Evolution 2018, 72: 59-66. PMID: 29960078, PMCID: PMC6708508, DOI: 10.1016/j.meegid.2018.06.029.Peer-Reviewed Original Research
2017
Polyclonal Pulmonary Tuberculosis Infections and Risk for Multidrug Resistance, Lima, Peru - Volume 23, Number 11—November 2017 - Emerging Infectious Diseases journal - CDC
Nathavitharana RR, Shi CX, Chindelevitch L, Calderon R, Zhang Z, Galea JT, Contreras C, Yataco R, Lecca L, Becerra MC, Murray MB, Cohen T. Polyclonal Pulmonary Tuberculosis Infections and Risk for Multidrug Resistance, Lima, Peru - Volume 23, Number 11—November 2017 - Emerging Infectious Diseases journal - CDC. Emerging Infectious Diseases 2017, 23: 1887-1890. PMID: 29048297, PMCID: PMC5652442, DOI: 10.3201/eid2311.170077.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsTreatment of tuberculosisHost Mycobacterium tuberculosis diversityMultidrug-resistant TBInfectious Diseases journal - CDCPulmonary TB patientsPulmonary tuberculosis infectionTB patientsTuberculosis infectionPolyclonal infectionsSimple infectionMultidrug resistanceInfectionPatientsTuberculosisPrevalenceDiagnosis
2016
Genomic diversity in autopsy samples reveals within-host dissemination of HIV-associated Mycobacterium tuberculosis
Lieberman TD, Wilson D, Misra R, Xiong LL, Moodley P, Cohen T, Kishony R. Genomic diversity in autopsy samples reveals within-host dissemination of HIV-associated Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Nature Medicine 2016, 22: 1470-1474. PMID: 27798613, PMCID: PMC5508070, DOI: 10.1038/nm.4205.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchMeSH KeywordsAdultAgedAutopsyBacteriological TechniquesCoinfectionDNA, BacterialFemaleGenetic VariationHIV InfectionsHumansLiverLungLymph NodesMaleMiddle AgedMycobacterium tuberculosisPhylogenyPolymorphism, Single NucleotideSouth AfricaSpleenTuberculosisTuberculosis, HepaticTuberculosis, Lymph NodeTuberculosis, PulmonaryTuberculosis, Splenic