Whole Genome Sequencing versus Traditional Genotyping for Investigation of a Mycobacterium tuberculosis Outbreak: A Longitudinal Molecular Epidemiological Study

• Andreas Roetzer ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Andreas Roetzer, Roland Diel, Thomas A. Kohl

  Affiliation Molecular Mycobacteriology, Forschungszentrum Borstel, Borstel, Germany

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• Roland Diel ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Andreas Roetzer, Roland Diel, Thomas A. Kohl

  Affiliation Institute for Epidemiology, Schleswig-Holstein University Hospital, Kiel, Germany

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• Thomas A. Kohl ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Andreas Roetzer, Roland Diel, Thomas A. Kohl

  Affiliations Molecular Mycobacteriology, Forschungszentrum Borstel, Borstel, Germany, Institute for Genome Research and Systems Biology, CeBiTec, Bielefeld University, Bielefeld, Germany

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• Christian Rückert,

  Affiliation Institute for Genome Research and Systems Biology, CeBiTec, Bielefeld University, Bielefeld, Germany

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• Ulrich Nübel,

  Affiliation Robert Koch Institut, Wernigerode, Germany

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• Jochen Blom,

  Affiliation Computational Genomics, CeBiTec, Bielefeld University, Bielefeld, Germany

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• Thierry Wirth,

  Affiliation Department of Systematics and Evolution, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris, France

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• Sebastian Jaenicke,

  Affiliation Computational Genomics, CeBiTec, Bielefeld University, Bielefeld, Germany

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• Sieglinde Schuback,

  Affiliation Gesundheitsamt des Kreises Steinburg, Itzehoe, Germany

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• Sabine Rüsch-Gerdes,

  Affiliation National Reference Center for Mycobacteria, Forschungszentrum Borstel, Borstel, Germany

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• Philip Supply,

  Affiliation INSERM, U1019, CNRS UMR 8204, Institut Pasteur de Lille, Univ Lille Nord de France, Lille, France

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• Jörn Kalinowski,

  Affiliation Institute for Genome Research and Systems Biology, CeBiTec, Bielefeld University, Bielefeld, Germany

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• Stefan Niemann

  * E-mail: sniemann@fz-borstel.de

  Affiliation Molecular Mycobacteriology, Forschungszentrum Borstel, Borstel, Germany

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