Accuracy of whole genome sequencing to determine recent tuberculosis transmission: an 11-year population-based study in Hamburg, Germany

Roland Diel (1) , Thomas Kohl (2) , Florian Maurer , Matthias Merker (3) , Karen Meywald Walter , Jörg Hannemann , Albert Nienhaus , Philip Supply (4) , Stefan Niemann (5)

1 LJAD - Laboratoire Jean Alexandre Dieudonné
2 KIT - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
3 Molecular Mycobacteriology
4 CIIL - Centre d’Infection et d’Immunité de Lille - INSERM U 1019 - UMR 9017 - UMR 8204
5 Molecular Mycobacteriology Group

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Domaines: Microbiologie et Parasitologie; Génomique, Transcriptomique et Protéomique [q-bio.GN]

Roland Diel, Thomas Kohl, Florian Maurer, Matthias Merker, Karen Meywald Walter, et al.. Accuracy of whole genome sequencing to determine recent tuberculosis transmission: an 11-year population-based study in Hamburg, Germany. European Respiratory Journal, 2019, pp.1901154. ⟨10.1183/13993003.01154-2019⟩. ⟨hal-02347059⟩