Strain variation in the mycobacterium tuberculosis complex : its role in biology, epidemiology and control

Until about 10 years ago, the general view in the field was that Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the causative agent of human tuberculosis was a "clone" with insufficient natural sequence variation between clinical strains to be considered biologically and epidemiologically "relevant"...

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Other Authors Gagneux, Sebastien
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Cham : Springer, 2017.
SeriesAdvances in experimental medicine and biology ; v. 1019.
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Online AccessFull text
ISBN9783319643717
9783319643694
Physical Description1 online resource (319 pages)

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Table of Contents:
  • The nature and evolution of genomic diversity in the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex / Daniela Brites and Sebastien Gagneux
  • The biology and epidemiology of Mycobacterium canettii / Philip Supply and Roland Brosch
  • The evolution of strain typing in the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex / Matthias Merker, Thomas A. Kohl, Stefan Niemann, and Philip Supply
  • Genomic epidemiology of tuberculosis / Iñaki Comas
  • Biological and epidemiological consequences of MTBC diversity / Mireia Coscolla
  • The biology and epidemiology of Mycobacterium africanum / Dorothy Yeboah-Manu, Bouke C. de Jong, and Florian Gehre
  • Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex members adapted to wild and domestic animals / Kerri M. Malone and Stephen V. Gordon
  • Evolution and strain variation in BCG / Abdallah M. Abdallah and Marcel A. Behr
  • Antigenic variation and immune escape in the MTBC / Joel D. Ernst
  • PE and PPE genes: a tale of conservation and diversity / Giovanni Delogu, Michael J. Brennan, and Riccardo Manganelli
  • Epidemiology of drug-resistant tuberculosis / Anna S. Dean, Helen Cox, and Matteo Zignol
  • Evolution of phenotypic and molecular drug susceptibility testing / Daniela M. Cirillo, Paolo Miotto, and Enrico Tortoli
  • DNA replication fidelity in the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex / Digby F. Warner, Jeremy M. Rock, Sarah M. Fortune, and Valerie Mizrahi
  • Strain diversity and the evolution of antibiotic resistance / Sonia Borrell and Andrej Trauner
  • Mathematical models for the epidemiology and evolution of Mycobacterium tuberculosis / Jūlija Pečerska, James Wood, Mark M. Tanaka, and Tanja Stadler
  • Index.