Published in Tuberculosis (Edinb) on January 01, 2004
Beijing/W genotype Mycobacterium tuberculosis and drug resistance. Emerg Infect Dis (2006) 3.93
A recently evolved sublineage of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis Beijing strain family is associated with an increased ability to spread and cause disease. J Clin Microbiol (2007) 2.83
Relationship between Mycobacterium tuberculosis genotype and the clinical phenotype of pulmonary and meningeal tuberculosis. J Clin Microbiol (2008) 1.89
Association between Mycobacterium tuberculosis Beijing/W lineage strain infection and extrathoracic tuberculosis: Insights from epidemiologic and clinical characterization of the three principal genetic groups of M. tuberculosis clinical isolates. J Clin Microbiol (2006) 1.77
Does M. tuberculosis genomic diversity explain disease diversity? Drug Discov Today Dis Mech (2010) 1.67
The non-clonality of drug resistance in Beijing-genotype isolates of Mycobacterium tuberculosis from the Western Cape of South Africa. BMC Genomics (2010) 1.54
Evidence that the spread of Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains with the Beijing genotype is human population dependent. J Clin Microbiol (2007) 1.42
Consequences of genomic diversity in Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Semin Immunol (2014) 1.30
Tuberculosis associated with Mycobacterium tuberculosis Beijing and non-Beijing genotypes: a clinical and immunological comparison. BMC Infect Dis (2006) 1.25
Mycobacterium tuberculosis Beijing strains favor transmission but not drug resistance in China. Clin Infect Dis (2012) 1.22
Variation in gamma interferon responses to different infecting strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in acid-fast bacillus smear-positive patients and household contacts in Antananarivo, Madagascar. Clin Vaccine Immunol (2010) 1.17
Relapse associated with active disease caused by Beijing strain of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Emerg Infect Dis (2009) 1.05
Bacterial genetic signatures of human social phenomena among M. tuberculosis from an Aboriginal Canadian population. Mol Biol Evol (2009) 0.92
Clinical impact of Mycobacterium tuberculosis W-Beijing genotype strain infection on aged patients in Taiwan. J Clin Microbiol (2008) 0.92
Transmission of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Beijing Strains, Alberta, Canada, 1991-2007. Emerg Infect Dis (2013) 0.89
A population-based cohort study of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Beijing strains: an emerging public health threat in an immigrant-receiving country? PLoS One (2012) 0.82
Tuberculosis caused by RDRio Mycobacterium tuberculosis is not associated with differential clinical features. Int J Tuberc Lung Dis (2012) 0.81
Clinico-pathological features of tuberculosis due to Mycobacterium tuberculosis Uganda genotype in patients with tuberculous lymphadenitis: a cross sectional study. BMC Clin Pathol (2014) 0.79
Chest X-rays and associated clinical parameters in pulmonary tuberculosis cases from the National Tuberculosis Programme, Mumbai. Infect Dis Rep (2012) 0.78
Proposal for standardization of optimized mycobacterial interspersed repetitive unit-variable-number tandem repeat typing of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. J Clin Microbiol (2006) 12.53
Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex genetic diversity: mining the fourth international spoligotyping database (SpolDB4) for classification, population genetics and epidemiology. BMC Microbiol (2006) 11.86
Variable host-pathogen compatibility in Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2006) 8.90
Worldwide occurrence of Beijing/W strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis: a systematic review. Emerg Infect Dis (2002) 8.31
Human T cell epitopes of Mycobacterium tuberculosis are evolutionarily hyperconserved. Nat Genet (2010) 4.94
High functional diversity in Mycobacterium tuberculosis driven by genetic drift and human demography. PLoS Biol (2008) 4.74
Global distribution of Mycobacterium tuberculosis spoligotypes. Emerg Infect Dis (2002) 4.22
Snapshot of moving and expanding clones of Mycobacterium tuberculosis and their global distribution assessed by spoligotyping in an international study. J Clin Microbiol (2003) 4.19
The influence of host and bacterial genotype on the development of disseminated disease with Mycobacterium tuberculosis. PLoS Pathog (2008) 3.79
Genomic deletions classify the Beijing/W strains as a distinct genetic lineage of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. J Clin Microbiol (2005) 3.67
Mutations in putative mutator genes of Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains of the W-Beijing family. Emerg Infect Dis (2003) 3.52
Rapid and simple approach for identification of Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex isolates by PCR-based genomic deletion analysis. J Clin Microbiol (2002) 3.32
Origin, spread and demography of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex. PLoS Pathog (2008) 3.10
A multi-country non-inferiority cluster randomized trial of frontloaded smear microscopy for the diagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis. PLoS Med (2011) 2.38
Mycobacterium tuberculosis Beijing genotype and risk for treatment failure and relapse, Vietnam. Emerg Infect Dis (2003) 2.04
Inferring patient to patient transmission of Mycobacterium tuberculosis from whole genome sequencing data. BMC Infect Dis (2013) 2.01
Genomic analysis distinguishes Mycobacterium africanum. J Clin Microbiol (2004) 2.01
Ecotypes of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex. J Theor Biol (2005) 1.97
Characterization of the Manila family of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. J Clin Microbiol (2003) 1.89
Tuberculosis outbreaks predicted by characteristics of first patients in a DNA fingerprint cluster. Am J Respir Crit Care Med (2008) 1.78
The tempo and mode of molecular evolution of Mycobacterium tuberculosis at patient-to-patient scale. Infect Genet Evol (2009) 1.76
Drug susceptibility testing of Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex by use of a high-throughput, reproducible, absolute concentration method. J Clin Microbiol (2007) 1.65
Application of sensitive and specific molecular methods to uncover global dissemination of the major RDRio Sublineage of the Latin American-Mediterranean Mycobacterium tuberculosis spoligotype family. J Clin Microbiol (2008) 1.59
Clusters of multidrug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis cases, Europe. Emerg Infect Dis (2009) 1.58
Myths and misconceptions: the origin and evolution of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Nat Rev Microbiol (2009) 1.58
Drug susceptibility of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Beijing genotype and association with MDR TB. Emerg Infect Dis (2012) 1.57
First worldwide proficiency study on variable-number tandem-repeat typing of Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex strains. J Clin Microbiol (2011) 1.57
High-resolution typing by integration of genome sequencing data in a large tuberculosis cluster. J Clin Microbiol (2010) 1.52
Validation of the GenoType MTBDRplus assay for diagnosis of multidrug resistant tuberculosis in South Vietnam. BMC Infect Dis (2010) 1.52
Transmission of tuberculosis within family-households. J Infect (2012) 1.52
Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains of the Beijing genotype are rarely observed in tuberculosis patients in South America. Mem Inst Oswaldo Cruz (2008) 1.51
Correlations of mutations in katG, oxyR-ahpC and inhA genes and in vitro susceptibility in Mycobacterium tuberculosis clinical strains segregated by spoligotype families from tuberculosis prevalent countries in South America. BMC Microbiol (2009) 1.50
Time-kill kinetics of anti-tuberculosis drugs, and emergence of resistance, in relation to metabolic activity of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. J Antimicrob Chemother (2010) 1.47
Beijing genotype of Mycobacterium tuberculosis is significantly associated with human immunodeficiency virus infection and multidrug resistance in cases of tuberculous meningitis. J Clin Microbiol (2006) 1.47
Utility of mycobacterial interspersed repetitive unit typing for differentiating multidrug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates of the Beijing family. J Clin Microbiol (2005) 1.44
Revisiting the evolution of Mycobacterium bovis. J Bacteriol (2005) 1.39
Resolving lineage assignation on Mycobacterium tuberculosis clinical isolates classified by spoligotyping with a new high-throughput 3R SNPs based method. Infect Genet Evol (2010) 1.32
Mycobacterium tuberculosis Beijing genotype. Emerg Infect Dis (2003) 1.30
Mycobacterium microti infection (vole tuberculosis) in wild rodent populations. J Clin Microbiol (2002) 1.30
Comparative study of IS6110 restriction fragment length polymorphism and variable-number tandem-repeat typing of Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates in the Netherlands, based on a 5-year nationwide survey. J Clin Microbiol (2013) 1.29
Phylogeny of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Beijing strains constructed from polymorphisms in genes involved in DNA replication, recombination and repair. PLoS One (2011) 1.26
Mycobacterium tuberculosis Beijing genotype, the Netherlands. Emerg Infect Dis (2003) 1.22
The use of microbead-based spoligotyping for Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex to evaluate the quality of the conventional method: providing guidelines for Quality Assurance when working on membranes. BMC Infect Dis (2011) 1.18
Tuberculosis elimination in the Netherlands. Emerg Infect Dis (2005) 1.18
Increased transmission of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Beijing genotype strains associated with resistance to streptomycin: a population-based study. PLoS One (2012) 1.12
The incubation period distribution of tuberculosis estimated with a molecular epidemiological approach. Int J Epidemiol (2011) 1.12
Influence of sampling on clustering and associations with risk factors in the molecular epidemiology of tuberculosis. Am J Epidemiol (2011) 1.10
Pre-existing isoniazid resistance, but not the genotype of Mycobacterium tuberculosis drives rifampicin resistance codon preference in vitro. PLoS One (2012) 1.10
Epidemiology of tuberculosis in WHO European Region and public health response. Eur Spine J (2012) 1.10
African 2, a clonal complex of Mycobacterium bovis epidemiologically important in East Africa. J Bacteriol (2010) 1.08
A standardised restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) method for typing Mycobacterium avium isolates links IS901 with virulence for birds. J Microbiol Methods (2003) 1.07
Genome structure in the vole bacillus, Mycobacterium microti, a member of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex with a low virulence for humans. Microbiology (2004) 1.06
Mycobacterium tuberculosis spoligotypes in Monterrey, Mexico. J Clin Microbiol (2009) 1.06
Characterization of ancestral Mycobacterium tuberculosis by multiple genetic markers and proposal of genotyping strategy. J Clin Microbiol (2004) 1.05
24-locus MIRU-VNTR genotyping is a useful tool to study the molecular epidemiology of tuberculosis among Warao Amerindians in Venezuela. Tuberculosis (Edinb) (2008) 1.05
SNP/RD typing of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Beijing strains reveals local and worldwide disseminated clonal complexes. PLoS One (2011) 1.03
Investigation on Mycobacterium tuberculosis diversity in China and the origin of the Beijing clade. PLoS One (2011) 1.01
Mycobacterium tuberculosis lipids regulate cytokines, TLR-2/4 and MHC class II expression in human macrophages. Tuberculosis (Edinb) (2008) 1.00
Distinct genotypic profiles of the two major clades of Mycobacterium africanum. BMC Infect Dis (2010) 1.00
Mutations in the regulatory network underlie the recent clonal expansion of a dominant subclone of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis Beijing genotype. Infect Genet Evol (2011) 0.99
Mycobacterium heckeshornense infection in an immunocompetent patient and identification by 16S rRNA sequence analysis of culture material and a histopathology tissue specimen. J Clin Microbiol (2004) 0.99
Targeted hybridization of IS6110 fingerprints identifies the W-Beijing Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains among clinical isolates. J Clin Microbiol (2005) 0.98
European 1: a globally important clonal complex of Mycobacterium bovis. Infect Genet Evol (2011) 0.98
Tuberculosis relapse in Vietnam is significantly associated with Mycobacterium tuberculosis Beijing genotype infections. J Infect Dis (2013) 0.96
Mixed tuberculosis infections in rural South Vietnam. J Clin Microbiol (2012) 0.95
Rapid test for identification of a highly transmissible Mycobacterium tuberculosis Beijing strain of sub-Saharan origin. J Clin Microbiol (2011) 0.94
Mycobacterial factors relevant for transmission of tuberculosis. J Infect Dis (2011) 0.92
A lipid profile typifies the Beijing strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis: identification of a mutation responsible for a modification of the structures of phthiocerol dimycocerosates and phenolic glycolipids. J Biol Chem (2009) 0.91
Epidemiology of isoniazid resistance mutations and their effect on tuberculosis treatment outcomes. Antimicrob Agents Chemother (2013) 0.90
Characterization of the major formamidopyrimidine-DNA glycosylase homolog in Mycobacterium tuberculosis and its linkage to variable tandem repeats. FEMS Immunol Med Microbiol (2009) 0.88
Preferential deletion events in the direct repeat locus of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. J Clin Microbiol (2011) 0.88
Fast ligation-mediated PCR, a fast and reliable method for IS6110-based typing of Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex. J Clin Microbiol (2005) 0.88
Mapping of IS6110 insertion sites in Mycobacterium bovis isolates in relation to adaptation from the animal to human host. Vet Microbiol (2007) 0.86
[Findings and ongoing research in the molecular epidemiology of tuberculosis]. Kekkaku (2009) 0.83
Mycobacterium tuberculosis population structures differ significantly on two Indonesian Islands. J Clin Microbiol (2008) 0.82
Mycobacterium tuberculosis Beijing genotype induces differential cytokine production by peripheral blood mononuclear cells of healthy BCG vaccinated individuals. Immunol Invest (2011) 0.78
Mycobacterium riyadhense overlooked: we can only find what we are looking for. J Infect Dev Ctries (2013) 0.76
Transposition rates of Mycobacterium tuberculosis IS6110 restriction fragment length polymorphism patterns. J Clin Microbiol (2004) 0.76
Clustering of Beijing genotype Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates from the Mekong delta in Vietnam on the basis of variable number of tandem repeat versus restriction fragment length polymorphism typing. BMC Infect Dis (2013) 0.75
[Establishment and application of a standard IS6110-RFLP method in the study of molecular genotyping analysis on Mycobacterium tuberculosis]. Zhonghua Liu Xing Bing Xue Za Zhi (2008) 0.75
Mycobacterium bovis infection in a young Dutch adult: transmission from an elderly human source? Med Microbiol Immunol (2012) 0.75