The MtZ Strain: Molecular Characteristics and Outbreak Investigation of the Most Successful Mycobacterium tuberculosis Strain in Aragon Using Whole-Genome Sequencing

The MtZ Strain: Molecular Characteristics and Outbreak Investigation of the Most Successful Mycobacterium tuberculosis Strain in Aragon Using Whole-Genome Sequencing

Since 2004, a tuberculosis surveillance protocol has been carried out in Aragon, thereby managing to detect all tuberculosis outbreaks that take place in the community. The largest outbreak was caused by a strain named Mycobacterium tuberculosis Zaragoza (MtZ), causing 242 cases as of 2020. The main...

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Main Authors: Jessica Comín, Jan Madacki, Isabel Rabanaque, María Zúñiga-Antón, Daniel Ibarz, Alberto Cebollada, Jesús Viñuelas, Luis Torres, Juan Sahagún, Christophe Klopp, Jesús Gonzalo-Asensio, Roland Brosch, María-José Iglesias, Sofía Samper
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-05-01
Series:Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology
Subjects:
tuberculosis outbreak
molecular epidemiology
tuberculosis
WGS
tuberculosis virulence
Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fcimb.2022.887134/full

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