Whole Genome Sequencing Investigation of a Tuberculosis Outbreak in Port-au-Prince, Haiti Caused by a Strain with a “Low-Level” rpoB Mutation L511P – Insights into a Mechanism of Resistance Escalation

• Oksana Ocheretina ,

  * E-mail: oko2001@med.cornell.edu

  Affiliations Center for Global Health, Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, New York, United States of America, Les Centres GHESKIO, Port-au-Prince, Haiti

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• Lishuang Shen,

  Affiliation Biomedical Sciences (VTBMC), Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America

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• Vincent E. Escuyer,

  Affiliation Laboratory of Mycobacteriology, Wadsworth Center, New York State Department of Health, Albany, New York, United States of America

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• Marie-Marcelle Mabou,

  Affiliation Les Centres GHESKIO, Port-au-Prince, Haiti

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• Gertrude Royal-Mardi,

  Affiliation Les Centres GHESKIO, Port-au-Prince, Haiti

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• Sean E. Collins,

  Affiliation Center for Global Health, Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, New York, United States of America

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• Jean W. Pape,

  Affiliations Center for Global Health, Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, New York, United States of America, Les Centres GHESKIO, Port-au-Prince, Haiti

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• Daniel W. Fitzgerald

  Affiliation Center for Global Health, Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, New York, United States of America

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