Whole Genome Sequencing of Mycobacterium africanum Strains from Mali Provides Insights into the Mechanisms of Geographic Restriction

Evolution of Extensively Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis over Four Decades: Whole Genome Sequencing and Dating Analysis of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Isolates from KwaZulu-Natal

(2015) Keira A. Cohen et al.   PLOS MEDICINE

Mycobacterium africanum Is Associated with Patient Ethnicity in Ghana

(2015) Adwoa Asante-Poku et al.   PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Low Resistance to First and Second Line Anti-Tuberculosis Drugs among Treatment Naive Pulmonary Tuberculosis Patients in Southwestern Uganda

(2015) Patrick Orikiriza et al.   PLoS One

ATP synthase in mycobacteria: Special features and implications for a function as drug target

(2014) Ping Lu et al.   BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOENERGETICS

Differences in T-cell responses betweenMycobacterium tuberculosisandMycobacterium africanum-infected patients

(2014) Leopold D. Tientcheu et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY

Nonclassical Transpeptidases of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Alter Cell Size, Morphology, the Cytosolic Matrix, Protein Localization, Virulence, and Resistance to  -Lactams

(2014) M. K. Schoonmaker et al.   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY

Pilon: An Integrated Tool for Comprehensive Microbial Variant Detection and Genome Assembly Improvement

(2014) Bruce J. Walker et al.   PLoS One

Evolutionary history of tuberculosis shaped by conserved mutations in the PhoPR virulence regulator

(2014) J. Gonzalo-Asensio et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Consequences of genomic diversity in Mycobacterium tuberculosis

(2014) Mireia Coscolla et al.   SEMINARS IN IMMUNOLOGY

Take five — Type VII secretion systems of Mycobacteria

(2013) Edith N.G. Houben et al.   BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-MOLECULAR CELL RESEARCH

Vitamin B12 metabolism in Mycobacterium tuberculosis

(2013) Krishnamoorthy Gopinath et al.   Future Microbiology

Out-of-Africa migration and Neolithic coexpansion of Mycobacterium tuberculosis with modern humans

(2013) Iñaki Comas et al.   NATURE GENETICS

Genomic analysis of smooth tubercle bacilli provides insights into ancestry and pathoadaptation of Mycobacterium tuberculosis

(2013) Philip Supply et al.   NATURE GENETICS

Genome sequencing of 161 Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates from China identifies genes and intergenic regions associated with drug resistance

(2013) Hongtai Zhang et al.   NATURE GENETICS

A vitamin B12 transporter in Mycobacterium tuberculosis

(2013) K. Gopinath et al.   Open Biology

Deciphering the Growth Behaviour of Mycobacterium africanum

(2013) Florian Gehre et al.   PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Helicobacter pylori serologic status has no influence on the association between fucosyltransferase 2 polymorphism (FUT2 461 G→A) and vitamin B-12 in Europe and West Africa

(2012) Abderrahim Oussalah et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF CLINICAL NUTRITION

Comparative analysis of mycobacterium and related actinomycetes yields insight into the evolution of mycobacterium tuberculosis pathogenesis

(2012) Abigail McGuire et al.   BMC GENOMICS

Finished bacterial genomes from shotgun sequence data

(2012) F. J. Ribeiro et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

SITVITWEB – A publicly available international multimarker database for studying Mycobacterium tuberculosis genetic diversity and molecular epidemiology

(2012) Christophe Demay et al.   INFECTION GENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Molecular strain typing of Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex in Bamako, Mali

(2012) B. Traore et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF TUBERCULOSIS AND LUNG DISEASE

Detection of Resistance to Second-Line Antituberculosis Drugs by Use of the Genotype MTBDRsl Assay: a Multicenter Evaluation and Feasibility Study

(2012) O. Ignatyeva et al.   JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY

Diagnostic Accuracy of the GenoType MTBDRslAssay for Rapid Diagnosis of Extensively Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis in HIV-Coinfected Patients

(2012) Irina Kontsevaya et al.   JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY

Impaired Fitness of Mycobacterium africanum Despite Secretion of ESAT-6

(2012) Tyler D. Bold et al.   JOURNAL OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES

Whole-genome sequencing to delineate Mycobacterium tuberculosis outbreaks: a retrospective observational study

(2012) Timothy M Walker et al.   LANCET INFECTIOUS DISEASES

Comparative Genomics of Enterococci: Variation in Enterococcus faecalis, Clade Structure in E. faecium, and Defining Characteristics of E. gallinarum and E. casseliflavus

(2012) K. L. Palmer et al.   mBio

The Genome of Mycobacterium Africanum West African 2 Reveals a Lineage-Specific Locus and Genome Erosion Common to the M. tuberculosis Complex

(2012) Stephen D. Bentley et al.   PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Mutations ingidBConfer Low-Level Streptomycin Resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis

(2011) Sharon Y. Wong et al.   ANTIMICROBIAL AGENTS AND CHEMOTHERAPY

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

GenoType MTBDRslfor Molecular Detection of Second-Line-Drug and Ethambutol Resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis Strains and Clinical Samples

(2011) A. Lacoma et al.   JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY

Investigating Transmission of Mycobacterium bovis in the United Kingdom in 2005 to 2008

(2011) S. Mandal et al.   JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY

SignalP 4.0: discriminating signal peptides from transmembrane regions

(2011) Thomas Nordahl Petersen et al.   NATURE METHODS

A scalable, fully automated process for construction of sequence-ready human exome targeted capture libraries

(2011) Sheila Fisher et al.   GENOME BIOLOGY

Prodigal: prokaryotic gene recognition and translation initiation site identification

(2010) Doug Hyatt et al.   BMC BIOINFORMATICS

Genetic diversity of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Complex in Jos, Nigeria

(2010) Agatha Ani et al.   BMC INFECTIOUS DISEASES

Cyclic AMP signalling in mycobacteria: redirecting the conversation with a common currency

(2010) Guangchun Bai et al.   CELLULAR MICROBIOLOGY

Clinical characteristics of the smooth tubercle bacilli ‘Mycobacterium canettii’ infection suggest the existence of an environmental reservoir

(2010) J.-L. Koeck et al.   CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY AND INFECTION

Spoligotype Profile of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Complex Strains from HIV-Positive and -Negative Patients in Nigeria: a Comparative Analysis

(2010) S. Cadmus et al.   JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY

Evaluation of the MTBDRsl Test for Detection of Second-Line-Drug Resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis

(2010) V. S. Kiet et al.   JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY

Human T cell epitopes of Mycobacterium tuberculosis are evolutionarily hyperconserved

(2010) Iñaki Comas et al.   NATURE GENETICS

FastTree 2 – Approximately Maximum-Likelihood Trees for Large Alignments

(2010) Morgan N. Price et al.   PLoS One

Mycobacterium africanum—Review of an Important Cause of Human Tuberculosis in West Africa

(2010) Bouke C. de Jong et al.   PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Fast and accurate short read alignment with Burrows-Wheeler transform

(2009) H. Li et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

NN-align. An artificial neural network-based alignment algorithm for MHC class II peptide binding prediction

(2009) Morten Nielsen et al.   BMC BIOINFORMATICS

ESX/type VII secretion systems and their role in host–pathogen interaction

(2009) Roxane Simeone et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN MICROBIOLOGY

Differences between tuberculosis cases infected withMycobacterium africanum, West African type 2, relative to Euro-AmericanMycobacterium tuberculosis: an update

(2009) Bouke C. de Jong et al.   FEMS IMMUNOLOGY AND MEDICAL MICROBIOLOGY

Use of Spoligotyping and Large Sequence Polymorphisms To Study the Population Structure of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis Complex in a Cohort Study of Consecutive Smear-Positive Tuberculosis Cases in The Gambia

(2009) B. C. de Jong et al.   JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY

Feasibility of the GenoType MTBDRsl Assay for Fluoroquinolone, Amikacin-Capreomycin, and Ethambutol Resistance Testing of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Strains and Clinical Specimens

(2009) D. Hillemann et al.   JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY

Cyclic AMP intoxication of macrophages by a Mycobacterium tuberculosis adenylate cyclase

(2009) Nisheeth Agarwal et al.   NATURE

Predicting the effects of coding non-synonymous variants on protein function using the SIFT algorithm

(2009) Prateek Kumar et al.   Nature Protocols

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

Mycobacterium bovis at the animal–human interface: A problem, or not?

(2009) Anita Luise Michel et al.   VETERINARY MICROBIOLOGY

Mycobacterium tuberculosisspoligotypes and drug susceptibility pattern of isolates from tuberculosis patients in peri-urban Kampala, Uganda

(2008) Benon B Asiimwe et al.   BMC INFECTIOUS DISEASES

High genetic diversity among Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex strains from Sierra Leone

(2008) Susanne Homolka et al.   BMC MICROBIOLOGY

The Peptidoglycan of Stationary-Phase Mycobacterium tuberculosis Predominantly Contains Cross-Links Generated by L,D-Transpeptidation

(2008) M. Lavollay et al.   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY

Progression to Active Tuberculosis, but Not Transmission, Varies byMycobacterium tuberculosisLineage in The Gambia

(2008) Bouke C. de Jong et al.   JOURNAL OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES

Disseminated Tuberculosis in Hyrax (Procavia capensis) Caused by Mycobacterium africanum

(2008) Andrea Gudan et al.   JOURNAL OF ZOO AND WILDLIFE MEDICINE

Pulmonary tuberculosis: Virulence of Mycobacterium africanum and relevance in HIV co-infection

(2008) Christian G. Meyer et al.   TUBERCULOSIS