Qian Gao

TL;DR: Coalescent analyses indicate that MTBC emerged about 70,000 years ago, accompanied migrations of anatomically modern humans out of Africa and expanded as a consequence of increases in human population density during the Neolithic period, consistent with MTBC displaying characteristics indicative of adaptation to both low and high host densities.

TL;DR: Genotypic predictions of the susceptibility of M. tuberculosis to first‐line drugs were found to be correlated with phenotypic susceptibility to these drugs.

TL;DR: The use of P1-type ATPases represents a M. tuberculosis strategy to neutralize the toxic effects of zinc in macrophages, suggesting that heavy metal toxicity and its counteraction might represent yet another chapter in the host-microbe arms race.

TL;DR: It is shown that lineage 4 comprises globally distributed and geographically restricted sublineages, suggesting a distinction between generalists and specialists, and further support a European origin for the most common generalist sublineage.

TL;DR: The current landscape of WGS pipelines and applications, and best practices for M.tuberculosis WGS, are outlined, including standards for bioinformatics pipelines, curated repositories of resistance-causing variants, phylogenetic analyses, quality control and standardized reporting.