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ABSTRACT:
INSTRUMENT(S): NA
ORGANISM(S): Mycobacterium tuberculosis H37Rv
SUBMITTER: Simon Waddell
PROVIDER: E-MTAB-3872 | biostudies-arrayexpress |
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress
Honeyborne Isobella I McHugh Timothy D TD Kuittinen Iitu I Cichonska Anna A Evangelopoulos Dimitrios D Ronacher Katharina K van Helden Paul D PD Gillespie Stephen H SH Fernandez-Reyes Delmiro D Walzl Gerhard G Rousu Juho J Butcher Philip D PD Waddell Simon J SJ
BMC medicine 20160407
<h4>Background</h4>New treatment options are needed to maintain and improve therapy for tuberculosis, which caused the death of 1.5 million people in 2013 despite potential for an 86 % treatment success rate. A greater understanding of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M.tb) bacilli that persist through drug therapy will aid drug development programs. Predictive biomarkers for treatment efficacy are also a research priority.<h4>Methods and results</h4>Genome-wide transcriptional profiling was used to ...[more]