Evolution of extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis over four decades revealed by whole genome sequencing of Mycobacterium tuberculosis from KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
Keira A Cohen1, Thomas Abeel2, Abigail Manson McGuire2, Christopher A Desjardins2, Vanisha Munsamy3, Terrance P Shea2, Bruce J Walker2, Nonkqubela Bantubani4, Deepak V Almeida5, Lucia Alvarado2, Sinead Chapman2, Nomonde R Mvelase6, Eamon Y Duffy3, Michael G Fitzgerald2, Pamla Govender3, Sharvari Gujja2, Susanna Hamilton2, Clint Howarth2, Jeffrey D Larimer2, Kasmheel Maharaj3, Matthew D Pearson2, Margaret E Priest2, Qiandong Zeng2, Nesri Padayatchi7, Jacques Grosset5, Sarah K Young2, Jennifer Wortman2, Koleka P Mlisana6, Max R O’Donnell8, Bruce W Birren2, William R Bishai9, Alexander S Pym3, Ashlee M Earl2
1 Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA; KwaZulu-Natal Research Institute for TB and HIV (K-RITH), Durban, South Africa 2 Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA 3 KwaZulu-Natal Research Institute for TB and HIV (K-RITH), Durban, South Africa 4 Medical Research Council, Durban, South Africa 5 KwaZulu-Natal Research Institute for TB and HIV (K-RITH), Durban, South Africa; Center for Tuberculosis Research, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA 6 National Health Laboratory Service (NHLS), Durban, South Africa 7 Centre for the AIDS Programme of Research in (CAPRISA), Durban, South Africa 8 Centre for the AIDS Programme of Research in South Africa (CAPRISA), Durban, South Africa; Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons; Department of Epidemiology, Columbia Mailman School of Public Health, New York, USA 9 Center for Tuberculosis Research, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
Correspondence Address:
Keira A Cohen Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
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