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Drug Resistance and Epidemiological Success of Modern Mycobacterium tuberculosis Lineages in Western India.
The Journal of infectious diseases - 4 Feb 2025
Dixit Avika, Ektefaie Yasha, Kagal Anju, Freschi Luca, Karyakarte Rajesh, Lokhande Rahul, Groschel Matthias, Tornheim Jeffrey A, Gupte Nikhil, Pradhan Neeta N, Paradkar Mandar S, Deshmukh Sona, Kadam Dileep, Schito Marco, Engelthaler David M, Gupta Amita, Golub Jonathan, Mave Vidya, Farhat Maha
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BACKGROUND: Drivers of tuberculosis (TB) transmission in India, the country estimated to carry a quarter of the world's burden, are not well studied. We conducted a genomic epidemiology study to compare epidemiological success, host factors, and drug resistance among the 4 major Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) lineages (L1-L4) circulating in Pune, India. METHODS: We performed whole-genome sequencing (WGS) of Mtb...
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