Global tuberculosis incidence has declined marginally over the past decade, and tuberculosis
remains out of control in several parts of the world including Africa and Asia. Although …

… Whole genome sequencing (WGS) approaches use DNA sequencing platforms to
reconstruct the complete DNA sequence of an organism’s genome. The small (~4.4Mb), single-…

… cancer was more common in patients with S. gallolyticus IE than in those with S. gallolyticus
infection at other sites (OR 3.72, 95% CI 2.03–6.81). The virulence characteristics of …

… As a general guideline, loci with the highest evolutionary rates within this set may be applied
in the first place, possibly depending on the lineage(s) known to be prevalent in the area of …

… The S lineage which is highly prevalent in Sicily and Sardinia, could be identical to the F28
… T2-Uganda, which was first described by Niemann et al., was repeatedly found in East Africa, …

Tuberculosis caused 20% of all human deaths in the Western world between the seventeenth
and nineteenth centuries and remains a cause of high mortality in developing countries. In …

… cases of reactivation of infections acquired in their respective country of origin and that the
genomic deletion profiles of these strains were associated with the respective patient’s place …

Mycobacterium tuberculosis infects one third of the human world population and kills
someone every 15 seconds. For more than a century, scientists and clinicians have been …

Nonchromaffin paragangliomas (PGLs) are usually benign, neural-crest–derived, slow-growing
tumours of parasympathetic ganglia. Between 10% and 50% of cases are familial and …

Mycobacterium tuberculosis is an obligate human pathogen capable of persisting in individual
hosts for decades. We sequenced the genomes of 21 strains representative of the global …