Whole Genome Sequencing Reveals Complex Evolution Patterns of Multidrug-Resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis Beijing Strains in Patients

• Matthias Merker,

  Affiliation Molecular Mycobacteriology, Research Center Borstel, Borstel, Germany

  ⨯
• Thomas A. Kohl,

  Affiliation Molecular Mycobacteriology, Research Center Borstel, Borstel, Germany

  ⨯
• Andreas Roetzer,

  Affiliations Molecular Mycobacteriology, Research Center Borstel, Borstel, Germany, Biomedizinische ForschungsgmbH, Vienna, Austria

  ⨯
• Leona Truebe,

  Affiliations Molecular Mycobacteriology, Research Center Borstel, Borstel, Germany, Department of Medical Microbiology, Virology and Hygiene, Universitätsklinikum Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

  ⨯
• Elvira Richter,

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

  ⨯
• Sabine Rüsch-Gerdes,

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

  ⨯
• Lanfranco Fattorini,

  Affiliation Dipartimento di Malattie Infettive, Parassitarie e Immunomediate, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy

  ⨯
• Marco R. Oggioni,

  Affiliation Department of Genetics, University of Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom

  ⨯
• Helen Cox,

  Affiliations Médecins sans Frontières, Cape Town, South Africa, Centre of Infectious Disease Epidemiology & Research, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

  ⨯
• Francis Varaine,

  Affiliation Medical Department, Médecins sans Frontières, Paris, France

  ⨯
• Stefan Niemann

  * E-mail: stniemann@yahoo.de

  Affiliation Molecular Mycobacteriology, Research Center Borstel, Borstel, Germany

  ⨯