Fighting an old disease with next-generation sequencing

Whole genome sequencing has revealed that most cases of tuberculosis in a high-incidence setting in Malawi were caused by just one lineage of the bacterium responsible for the disease.

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Autores principales: Dippenaar, Anzaan, Warren, Robin M
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd 2015
Materias:
Epidemiology and Global Health
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4345822/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25732038
http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.06782
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spelling pubmed-43458222015-03-05 Fighting an old disease with next-generation sequencing Dippenaar, Anzaan Warren, Robin M eLife Epidemiology and Global Health Whole genome sequencing has revealed that most cases of tuberculosis in a high-incidence setting in Malawi were caused by just one lineage of the bacterium responsible for the disease. eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd 2015-03-03 /pmc/articles/PMC4345822/ /pubmed/25732038 http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.06782 Text en © 2015, Dippenaar and Warren http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use and redistribution provided that the original author and source are credited.
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title Fighting an old disease with next-generation sequencing
title_full Fighting an old disease with next-generation sequencing
title_fullStr Fighting an old disease with next-generation sequencing
title_full_unstemmed Fighting an old disease with next-generation sequencing
title_short Fighting an old disease with next-generation sequencing
title_sort fighting an old disease with next-generation sequencing
topic Epidemiology and Global Health
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4345822/
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