Genomic sequencing aids the global Tuberculosis fight

Zamin Iqbal and his team are working with researchers all over the globe to help put a stop to Tuberculosis

Different drugs to represent TB treatments, a globe to show global collaborations. In the background is a microscopy image of M. tuberculosis and sequencing information. — Global research to develop treatments for TB. Credit: Karen Arnott/EMBL

Source article(s)

The 2021 WHO catalogue of Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex mutations associated with drug resistance: a genotypic analysis

Walker T.M., et al.

The Lancet Microbe 8 March 2022

10.1016/S2666-5247(21)00301-3

Evaluation of Nanopore sequencing for Mycobacterium tuberculosis drug susceptibility testing and outbreak investigation: a genomic analysis

Hall M.B., et al.

The Lancet Microbe 19 December 2022

10.1016/S2666-5247(22)00301-9

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Tags: bioinformatics, data sharing, database, embl-ebi, genomics, infection biology, infectious disease, open access, open data, open science, sequencing, tuberculosis,

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