Inferring patient to patient transmission of Mycobacterium tuberculosisfrom whole genome sequencing data
Open Access
- 27 February 2013
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in BMC Infectious Diseases
- Vol. 13 (1), 110
- https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2334-13-110
Abstract
Mycobacterium tuberculosis is characterised by limited genomic diversity, which makes the application of whole genome sequencing particularly attractive for clinical and epidemiological investigation. However, in order to confidently infer transmission events, an accurate knowledge of the rate of change in the genome over relevant timescales is required.This publication has 41 references indexed in Scilit:
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