Identifying Likely Transmission Pathways within a 10-Year Community Outbreak of Tuberculosis by High-Depth Whole Genome Sequencing

• Alexander C. Outhred ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Alexander C. Outhred, Nadine Holmes

  * E-mail: alexander.outhred@health.nsw.gov.au

  Affiliations NSW Mycobacterium Reference Laboratory, Centre for Infectious Diseases and Microbiology Laboratory Services, Institute of Clinical Pathology and Medical Research–Pathology West, Sydney, Australia, Centre for Infectious Diseases and Microbiology–Public Health, Westmead Hospital, Sydney, Australia, Centre for Research Excellence in Tuberculosis and the Marie Bashir Institute for Infectious Diseases and Biosecurity, The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia, Children’s Hospital at Westmead, Sydney, Australia

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• Nadine Holmes ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Alexander C. Outhred, Nadine Holmes

  Affiliations NSW Mycobacterium Reference Laboratory, Centre for Infectious Diseases and Microbiology Laboratory Services, Institute of Clinical Pathology and Medical Research–Pathology West, Sydney, Australia, Centre for Infectious Diseases and Microbiology–Public Health, Westmead Hospital, Sydney, Australia

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• Rosemarie Sadsad ,

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliations NSW Mycobacterium Reference Laboratory, Centre for Infectious Diseases and Microbiology Laboratory Services, Institute of Clinical Pathology and Medical Research–Pathology West, Sydney, Australia, Centre for Infectious Diseases and Microbiology–Public Health, Westmead Hospital, Sydney, Australia

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• Elena Martinez ,

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliations NSW Mycobacterium Reference Laboratory, Centre for Infectious Diseases and Microbiology Laboratory Services, Institute of Clinical Pathology and Medical Research–Pathology West, Sydney, Australia, Centre for Infectious Diseases and Microbiology–Public Health, Westmead Hospital, Sydney, Australia

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• Peter Jelfs,

  Affiliations NSW Mycobacterium Reference Laboratory, Centre for Infectious Diseases and Microbiology Laboratory Services, Institute of Clinical Pathology and Medical Research–Pathology West, Sydney, Australia, Centre for Infectious Diseases and Microbiology–Public Health, Westmead Hospital, Sydney, Australia

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• Grant A. Hill-Cawthorne,

  Affiliations Centre for Research Excellence in Tuberculosis and the Marie Bashir Institute for Infectious Diseases and Biosecurity, The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia, School of Public Health, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia

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• Gwendolyn L. Gilbert,

  Affiliations Centre for Infectious Diseases and Microbiology–Public Health, Westmead Hospital, Sydney, Australia, Centre for Research Excellence in Tuberculosis and the Marie Bashir Institute for Infectious Diseases and Biosecurity, The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia

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• Ben J. Marais,

  Affiliations Centre for Research Excellence in Tuberculosis and the Marie Bashir Institute for Infectious Diseases and Biosecurity, The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia, Children’s Hospital at Westmead, Sydney, Australia

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• Vitali Sintchenko

  Affiliations NSW Mycobacterium Reference Laboratory, Centre for Infectious Diseases and Microbiology Laboratory Services, Institute of Clinical Pathology and Medical Research–Pathology West, Sydney, Australia, Centre for Infectious Diseases and Microbiology–Public Health, Westmead Hospital, Sydney, Australia, Centre for Research Excellence in Tuberculosis and the Marie Bashir Institute for Infectious Diseases and Biosecurity, The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia

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