Publications in collaboration with researchers from Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute (25)

2021

  1. Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex lineage 5 exhibits high levels of within-lineage genomic diversity and differing gene content compared to the type strain h37rv

    Microbial Genomics, Vol. 7, Núm. 7

  2. Phylogenomics of mycobacterium africanum reveals a new lineage and a complex evolutionary history

    Microbial Genomics, Vol. 7, Núm. 2, pp. 1-14

2019

  1. Genome-wide mutational biases fuel transcriptional diversity in the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex

    Nature Communications, Vol. 10, Núm. 1

  2. Genomic determinants of speciation and spread of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex

    Science Advances, Vol. 5, Núm. 6

  3. Molecular epidemiology and whole genome sequencing analysis of clinical Mycobacterium bovis from Ghana

    PLoS ONE, Vol. 14, Núm. 3

  4. Reference set of Mycobacterium tuberculosis clinical strains: A tool for research and product development

    PLoS ONE, Vol. 14, Núm. 3

2018

  1. A new phylogenetic framework for the animal-adapted mycobacterium tuberculosis complex

    Frontiers in Microbiology, Vol. 9, Núm. NOV

  2. Comparative genomics of Mycobacterium africanum Lineage 5 and Lineage 6 from Ghana suggests distinct ecological niches

    Scientific Reports, Vol. 8, Núm. 1

  3. Low sensitivity of the MPT64 identification test to detect lineage 5 of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex

    Journal of Medical Microbiology, Vol. 67, Núm. 12, pp. 1718-1727

2017

  1. Reversion of antibiotic resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis by spiroisoxazoline SMARt-420

    Science, Vol. 355, Núm. 6330, pp. 1206-1211

  2. Tuberculosis in Swiss captive Asian elephants: Microevolution of Mycobacterium tuberculosis characterized by multilocus variable-number tandem-repeat analysis and whole-genome sequencing

    Scientific Reports, Vol. 7, Núm. 1

2016

  1. Mycobacterium tuberculosis lineage 4 comprises globally distributed and geographically restricted sublineages

    Nature Genetics, Vol. 48, Núm. 12, pp. 1535-1543

  2. Standard genotyping overestimates transmission of mycobacterium tuberculosis among immigrants in a low-incidence country

    Journal of Clinical Microbiology, Vol. 54, Núm. 7, pp. 1862-1870

2015

  1. DNA replication fidelity in Mycobacterium tuberculosis is mediated by an ancestral prokaryotic proofreader

    Nature Genetics, Vol. 47, Núm. 6, pp. 677-681

  2. In vivo biosynthesis of terpene nucleosides provides unique chemical markers of mycobacterium tuberculosis infection

    Chemistry and Biology, Vol. 22, Núm. 4, pp. 516-526

  3. Tracking a tuberculosis outbreak over 21 years: Strain-specific single-nucleotide polymorphism typing combined with targeted whole-genome sequencing

    Journal of Infectious Diseases

2014

  1. KvarQ: Targeted and direct variant calling from fastq reads of bacterial genomes

    BMC Genomics, Vol. 15, Núm. 1

2013

  1. A New Method for Extracting Skin Microbes Allows Metagenomic Analysis of Whole-Deep Skin

    PLoS ONE, Vol. 8, Núm. 9

  2. Novel Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex isolate from a wild chimpanzee

    Emerging Infectious Diseases, Vol. 19, Núm. 6, pp. 969-976

2012

  1. Beijing sublineages of Mycobacterium tuberculosis differ in pathogenicity in the guinea pig

    Clinical and Vaccine Immunology, Vol. 19, Núm. 8, pp. 1227-1237