Publicaties
Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex genetic diversity: mining the fourth international spoligotyping database (SpolDB4) for classification, population genetics and epidemiology Instituut voor Tropische Geneeskunde
Whole genome sequencing improves the discrimination between Mycobacterium bovis strains on the southern border of Kruger National Park, South Africa Universiteit Antwerpen
Broad diversity of Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex strains isolated from humans and cattle in Northern Algeria suggests a zoonotic transmission cycle Universiteit Antwerpen Instituut voor Tropische Geneeskunde
The relationship between transmission time and clustering methods in Mycobacterium tuberculosis epidemiology Instituut voor Tropische Geneeskunde Universiteit Antwerpen
BACKGROUND: Tracking recent transmission is a vital part of controlling widespread pathogens such as Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Multiple methods with specific performance characteristics exist for detecting recent transmission chains, usually by clustering strains based on genotype similarities. With such a large variety of methods available, informed selection of an appropriate approach for determining transmissions within a given ...
Genetic diversity of Mycobacterium tuberculosis from Pará, Brazil, reveals a higher frequency of ancestral strains than previously reported in South America Instituut voor Tropische Geneeskunde
There is only scarce information available on genotypic diversity of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex (MTBC) clinical isolates circulating in the Northern part of Brazil, a relatively neglected region regarding research on tuberculosis. We therefore characterized 980 MTBC clinical isolates from the state of Para, by spoligotyping and data was compared with patterns from around the world, besides analyzing drug susceptibility, and ...