New publication: determining novel mechanisms of bedaquiline resistance Philip Fowler, 30th March 20235th April 2023 1 shares A new paper with Lindsay Sonnenkalb as first-author has just been published in The Lancet Microbe. It is a collaboration between a number of groups, led by Stefan Niemann and in it we evolved resistance to bedaquiline in vitro. Sequencing revealed 265 genetic variants with 250 affecting Rv0678, which is the transcription regulator of mmpL5, an efflux pump. These variants included a number of novel mutations and, interestingly, a large scale rearrangement of Rv0678 which was confirmed with PacBio sequencing. The article is free to read and you can access it here. Share this: Share on X (Opens in new window) X Share on Bluesky (Opens in new window) Bluesky Email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email Share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window) LinkedIn Share on Mastodon (Opens in new window) Mastodon Related antimicrobial resistance clinical microbiology publication research tuberculosis
New preprint: comparing different genetics analysis pipelines for tuberculosis 13th January 202513th January 2025 Ruan Spies has done a careful systematic comparison of the current genetics pipelines that purport… Share this: Share on X (Opens in new window) X Share on Bluesky (Opens in new window) Bluesky Email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email Share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window) LinkedIn Share on Mastodon (Opens in new window) Mastodon Read More
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