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Whole Genome Sequencing versus Traditional Genotyping for Investigation of a Mycobacterium tuberculosis Outbreak: A Longitudinal Molecular Epidemiological Study

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2013

Year

Andreas Roetzer, Roland Diel, Thomas A. Kohl, Christian Rückert, Ulrich Nübel, Jochen Blom, Thierry Wirth, Sebastian Jaenicke, Sieglinde Schuback, Sabine Rüsch–Gerdes,
PLoS Medicine

Abstract

Our findings suggest that WGS is superior to conventional genotyping for Mtb pathogen tracing and investigating micro-epidemics. WGS provides a measure of Mtb genome evolution over time in its natural host context.

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