2024
Signatures of transmission in within-host Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex variation: a retrospective genomic epidemiology study
Walter K, Cohen T, Mathema B, Colijn C, Sobkowiak B, Comas I, Goig G, Croda J, Andrews J. Signatures of transmission in within-host Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex variation: a retrospective genomic epidemiology study. The Lancet Microbe 2024, 100936. PMID: 39615498, DOI: 10.1016/j.lanmic.2024.06.003.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchWithin-host variationMycobacterium tuberculosis complexTransmission inferenceSequence dataMinority variantsGenome Epidemiology StudyMTBC diversityWhole-genome sequencing dataPairs of isolatesAvailable sequence dataPublicly available sequencing dataRetrospective population-based studyPopulation-based studyIdentical genomesPPE genesGenetic differencesWalker etCulture isolatesTuberculosis complexHousehold transmission studyIsolatesEpidemiological linkageReceiver operating characteristicEpidemiological studiesCulture of sputum
2020
Genomic variant-identification methods may alter Mycobacterium tuberculosis transmission inferences
Walter KS, Colijn C, Cohen T, Mathema B, Liu Q, Bowers J, Engelthaler DM, Narechania A, Lemmer D, Croda J, Andrews JR. Genomic variant-identification methods may alter Mycobacterium tuberculosis transmission inferences. Microbial Genomics 2020, 6: mgen000418. PMID: 32735210, PMCID: PMC7641424, DOI: 10.1099/mgen.0.000418.Peer-Reviewed Original Research