Strain Variation in the Mycobacterium tuberculosis Complex: Its Role in Biology, Epidemiology and Control

1. The Nature and Evolution of Genomic Diversity in the Mycobacterium tuberculosis Complex
Daniela Brites, Sebastien Gagneux

2. The Biology and Epidemiology of Mycobacterium canettii

Philip Supply, Roland Brosch

3. The Evolution of Strain Typing in the Mycobacterium tuberculosis Complex
Matthias Merker, Thomas A. Kohl, Stefan Niemann, Philip Supply

4. Genomic Epidemiology of Tuberculosis
Iñaki Comas

5. Biological and Epidemiological Consequences of MTBC Diversity
Mireia Coscolla

6. The Biology and Epidemiology of Mycobacterium africanum

Dorothy Yeboah-Manu, Bouke C. Jong, Florian Gehre

7.
Mycobacterium tuberculosis Complex Members Adapted to Wild and Domestic Animals
Kerri M. Malone, Stephen V. Gordon

8. Evolution and Strain Variation in BCG
Abdallah M. Abdallah, Marcel A. Behr

9. Antigenic Variation and Immune Escape in the MTBC
Joel D. Ernst

10. PE and PPE Genes: A Tale of Conservation and Diversity
Giovanni Delogu, Michael J. Brennan, Riccardo Manganelli

11. Epidemiology of Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis
Anna S. Dean, Helen Cox, Matteo Zignol

12. Evolution of Phenotypic and Molecular Drug Susceptibility Testing
Daniela M. Cirillo, Paolo Miotto, Enrico Tortoli

13. DNA Replication Fidelity in the Mycobacterium tuberculosis Complex
Digby F. Warner, Jeremy M. Rock, Sarah M. Fortune, Valerie Mizrahi

14. Strain Diversity and the Evolution of Antibiotic Resistance
Sonia Borrell, Andrej Trauner

15. Mathematical Models for the Epidemiology and Evolution of Mycobacterium tuberculosis

Jūlija Pečerska, James Wood, Mark M. Tanaka, Tanja Stadler

Keywords: Life Sciences, Bacteriology, Drug Resistance