TB Dictionary
Along with Alberto Garcia-Basteiro and many others, Marcel contributed to the creationÌýand editing of the , a consensus TB dictionary to unify the language we speak. Link to THE LANCET Global Health publication describing this .Ìý
Alberto L Garcia-Basteiro, Joanna Ehrlich, Maryline Bonnet, Marianne Calnan, Stephen M Graham, Sabine Hermans, Adriana Jarrett, Rhoda Lewa, Anna Mandalakas, Leonardo Martinez, Giovanni Battista Migliori, Catherine WM Ong, Larissa Otero, Molebogeng Xheedha Rangaka, Mario CB Raviglione, Barbara Seaworth, Willy Ssengooba, Grant Theron, Anete Trajman, Marcel A Behr.Ìý.ÌýLancet Global Health, The, 2024-05-01, Volume 12, Issue 5, Pages e737-e739, Copyright © 2024 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an Open Access article under the CC BY 4.0 license
BCG strains that are mono-resistant to drugs used for TB
Sarah Danchuk has engineered a panel of recombinant BCG strains that are mono-resistant to drugs used for TB. Link to publication describing .ÌýÌýStrains available by request or also deposited at the .Ìý
Danchuk S, McIntosh F, Jamieson FB, May K, Behr MA. . Clinical Microbiology and Infection, 2020 Mar; 26(3): 384.e5-384.e8Ìý
The rBCG strains have been used inÌýSarah N Danchuk, Ori E Solomon, Thomas Andreas Kohl, Viola Dreyer, Ivan Barilar, Christian Utpatel, Stefan Niemann, Dick van Soolingen, Richard Anthony, Jakko van Ingen, Joy S Michael, Marcel A Behr.Ìý.ÌýThorax. 2024 Jun 14;79(7):670-675. doi: 10.1136/thorax-2023-220202.
Ancestral sequence for the Mycobacterium tuberculosisÌýcomplex
Luke Harrison has imputed the ancestral sequence for the Mycobacterium tuberculosisÌýcomplex, called MTBC 0.
Link to publication describing .
Harrison LB, Kapur V,ÌýBehr MA.Ìý.ÌýMicrob Genom. 2024 Jan;10(1):001165. doi: 10.1099/mgen.0.001165.PMID:Ìý38175684Ìý
The sequence can also be accessed via
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Previous work :ÌýGraphical user interfaceÌýfor Genomic Sequence ComparisonÌý
MycoHit is a JAVA application
This program serves to performÌýBLAST searches > then parses the TBLASTN result files with PERL scripts > in order to select the highest score for each protein. Obtained data, including the score, are then stored on a local MYSQL database.
It was first published in this article: Veyrier F, Pletzer D, Turenne C, Behr MA.. BMC Evol Biol. 2009 Aug 10;9:196. doi: 10.1186/1471-2148-9-196.
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