Genome Sequencing and Analysis of BCG Vaccine Strains

SOAPdenovo2: an empirically improved memory-efficient short-read de novo assembler

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The Influence of Bacille Calmette-Guérin Vaccine Strain on the Immune Response against Tuberculosis

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Genomic and proteomic analyses of Mycobacterium bovis BCG Mexico 1931 reveal a diverse immunogenic repertoire against tuberculosis infection

(2011) Patricia Orduña et al.   BMC GENOMICS

BCG Vaccines: Their mechanisms of attenuation and impact on safety and protective efficacy

(2010) Jun Liu et al.   Human vaccines & immunotherapeutics

Human T cell epitopes of Mycobacterium tuberculosis are evolutionarily hyperconserved

(2010) Iñaki Comas et al.   NATURE GENETICS

SOAP2: an improved ultrafast tool for short read alignment

(2009) R. Li et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Whole genome sequence analysis of Mycobacterium bovis bacillus Calmette–Guérin (BCG) Tokyo 172: A comparative study of BCG vaccine substrains

(2009) Masaaki Seki et al.   VACCINE

Novel genome polymorphisms in BCG vaccine strains and impact on efficacy

(2008) Andrea S Leung et al.   BMC GENOMICS

Tuberculosis vaccine strain Mycobacterium bovis BCG Russia is a natural recA mutant

(2008) Peter M Keller et al.   BMC MICROBIOLOGY

Tuberculosis vaccine development: goals, immunological design, and evaluation

(2008) Daniel F Hoft   LANCET

Genetic Basis of Virulence Attenuation Revealed by Comparative Genomic Analysis of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Strain H37Ra versus H37Rv

(2008) Huajun Zheng et al.   PLoS One