Genome-wide Mycobacterium tuberculosis variation (GMTV) database: a new tool for integrating sequence variations and epidemiology

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Authors

Ekaterina Chernyaeva · St Petersburg University

М. В. Шульгина · Saint-Petersburg Research Institute of Phthisiopulmonology

Mikhail Rotkevich · St Petersburg University

Pavel Dobrynin · St Petersburg University

Serguei Simonov · St Petersburg University

Egor Shitikov · Research Institute of Physical Chemical Medicine

Dmitry Ischenko

Abstract

Implementation of GMTV tracks the pattern of changes of M. tuberculosis strains in different geographical areas, facilitates disease gene discoveries associated with drug resistance or different clinical sequelae, and automates comparative genomic analyses among M. tuberculosis strains.

Topics & Keywords

Tuberculosis Research and Epidemiology Mycobacterium research and diagnosis RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms

UN Sustainable Development Goals

Good health and well-being

Publication Details

Published in: BMC Genomics

Volume 15, Issue 1, pp. 308-308

DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-15-308

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