Estimation of country-specific tuberculosis resistance antibiograms using pathogen genomics and machine learning

Background Global tuberculosis (TB) drug resistance (DR) surveillance focuses on rifampicin. We examined the potential of public and surveillance Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) whole-genome sequencing (WGS) data, to generate expanded country-level resistance prevalence estimates (antibiograms) usi...

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Main Authors: Luca Freschi, Alena Skrahina, Maria Nakhoul, Nazir Ismail, Avika Dixit, Roger Vargas, Matthias I Gröschel, Sabira Tahseen, S M Masud Alam, S M Mostofa Kamal, Ramon P Basilio, Dodge R Lim, Maha R Farhat
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMJ Publishing Group 2024-03-01
Series:BMJ Global Health
Online Access:https://gh.bmj.com/content/9/3/e013532.full