Troels Lillebaek

TL;DR: The results suggests the existence of fine geographical genetic clines within MTC populations, that could mirror the passed and present Homo sapiens sapiens demographical and mycobacterial co-evolutionary history whose structure could be further reconstructed and modelled, thereby providing a large-scale conceptual framework of the global TB Epidemiologic Network.

TL;DR: It is shown that this lineage of mycobacterium tuberculosis strains of the Beijing lineage initially originated in the Far East, from where it radiated worldwide in several waves and detected successive increases in population size over the last 200 years.

TL;DR: Using whole-genome analysis of a global collection of clinical isolates, it is shown that the majority of M. abscessus infections are acquired through transmission, potentially via fomites and aerosols, of recently emerged dominant circulating clones that have spread globally.

TL;DR: The QTF-TB test addresses the operational problems with the tuberculin skin test, but it still has a low specificity in populations vaccinated with the Bacille Calmette-Guérin (BCG) vaccine.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used whole-genome analysis of a global collection of clinical isolates to show that the majority of M. abscessus infections are acquired through transmission, potentially via fomites and aerosols, of recently emerged dominant circulating clones.