TB Dictionary
Along with Alberto Garcia-Basteiro and many others, Marcel contributed to the creation听and editing of the , a consensus TB dictionary to unify the language we speak. Link to THE LANCET Global Health publication describing this .听
Alberto L Garcia-Basteiro, Joanna Ehrlich, Maryline Bonnet, Marianne Calnan, Stephen M Graham, Sabine Hermans, Adriana Jarrett, Rhoda Lewa, Anna Mandalakas, Leonardo Martinez, Giovanni Battista Migliori, Catherine WM Ong, Larissa Otero, Molebogeng Xheedha Rangaka, Mario CB Raviglione, Barbara Seaworth, Willy Ssengooba, Grant Theron, Anete Trajman, Marcel A Behr.听.听Lancet Global Health, The, 2024-05-01, Volume 12, Issue 5, Pages e737-e739, Copyright 漏 2024 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an Open Access article under the CC BY 4.0 license
BCG strains that are mono-resistant to drugs used for TB
Sarah Danchuk has engineered a panel of recombinant BCG strains that are mono-resistant to drugs used for TB. Link to publication describing .听听Strains available by request or also deposited at the .听
Danchuk S, McIntosh F, Jamieson FB, May K, Behr MA. . Clinical Microbiology and Infection, 2020 Mar; 26(3): 384.e5-384.e8听
The rBCG strains have been used in听Sarah N Danchuk, Ori E Solomon, Thomas Andreas Kohl, Viola Dreyer, Ivan Barilar, Christian Utpatel, Stefan Niemann, Dick van Soolingen, Richard Anthony, Jakko van Ingen, Joy S Michael, Marcel A Behr.听.听Thorax. 2024 Jun 14;79(7):670-675. doi: 10.1136/thorax-2023-220202.
Ancestral sequence for the Mycobacterium tuberculosis听complex
Luke Harrison has imputed the ancestral sequence for the Mycobacterium tuberculosis听complex, called MTBC 0.
Link to publication describing .
Harrison LB, Kapur V,听Behr MA.听.听Microb Genom. 2024 Jan;10(1):001165. doi: 10.1099/mgen.0.001165.PMID:听38175684听
The sequence can also be accessed via
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Previous work :听Graphical user interface听for Genomic Sequence Comparison听
MycoHit is a JAVA application
This program serves to perform听BLAST searches > then parses the TBLASTN result files with PERL scripts > in order to select the highest score for each protein. Obtained data, including the score, are then stored on a local MYSQL database.
It was first published in this article: Veyrier F, Pletzer D, Turenne C, Behr MA.. BMC Evol Biol. 2009 Aug 10;9:196. doi: 10.1186/1471-2148-9-196.
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