The road to drug resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis

Genome Biol. 2014 Nov 13;15(11):520. doi: 10.1186/s13059-014-0520-1.

Abstract

Sequencing of serial isolates of extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis highlights how drug resistance develops within a single patient and reveals unexpected levels of pathogen diversity.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Evolution, Molecular*
  • Extensively Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis / genetics*
  • Extensively Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis / microbiology
  • Genetic Variation
  • Genotype
  • Humans
  • Microbial Sensitivity Tests
  • Mycobacterium tuberculosis / genetics*
  • Mycobacterium tuberculosis / pathogenicity
  • Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide