Same-day diagnostic and surveillance data for tuberculosis via whole genome sequencing of direct respiratory samples.
A. A. Votintseva, P. Bradley, L. Pankhurst, C. del Ojo Elias, M. Loose, K. Nilgiriwala, A. Chatterjee, E. G. Smith, N. Sanderson, T. M. Walker, M. R. Morgan, D. H. Wyllie, A. S. Walker, T. E. Peto, D. W. Crook, Z. Iqbal
This paper develops a low-cost WGS method for TB diagnosis and surveillance using direct respiratory samples, achieving rapid results with high concordance with reference labs.
bioRxiv · Dec 19, 2016Microbiology