Differential carriage of virulence-associated loci in the New Zealand Rangipo outbreak strain of Mycobacterium tuberculosis.

Sanjay S GautamMicheál Mac AogáinJames E BowerIndira BasuRonan F O'Toole

Published in: Infectious diseases (London, England) (2017)

Our study provides new insights into the genomic content of the New Zealand Rangipo strain of M. tuberculosis and highlights the presence of additional virulence-related loci not found in H37Rv.

Keyphrases

mycobacterium tuberculosis
escherichia coli
pseudomonas aeruginosa
staphylococcus aureus
pulmonary tuberculosis
genome wide
biofilm formation
antimicrobial resistance
genome wide association study
genome wide association
copy number
dna methylation
electronic health record