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Integrating informatics tools and portable sequencing technology for rapid dete...
Phelan, Jody E.; O'Sullivan, Denise M.; Machado, Diana; Ramos, Jorge; Oppong, Yaa E.A.; Campino, Susana; O'Grady, Justin; McNerney, RuthBackground: Mycobacterium tuberculosis resistance to anti-tuberculosis drugs is a major threat to global public health. Whole genome sequencing (WGS) is rapidly gaining traction as a diagnostic tool for clinical tuberculosis settings. To support this informatically, previous work led to the development of the widely used TBProfiler webtool, which predicts resistance to 14 drugs from WGS data. However, for accur...
The variability and reproducibility of whole genome sequencing technology for d...
Phelan, Jody; O'Sullivan, Denise M.; Machado, Diana; Ramos, Jorge; Whale, Alexandra S.; O'Grady, Justin; Dheda, Keertan; Campino, Susana; McNerney, RuthBackground: The emergence of resistance to anti-tuberculosis drugs is a serious and growing threat to public health. Next-generation sequencing is rapidly gaining traction as a diagnostic tool for investigating drug resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis to aid treatment decisions. However, there are few little data regarding the precision of such sequencing for assigning resistance profiles. Methods: We inve...