Project description:Sputum expectorated by the pulmonary tuberculosis patients still remains a primary diagnostic specimen. The expression pattern of mycobacteria in sputum will lead to an insight of bacterial adaptation at the most highly transmissible stage of infection and can also help in identifying newer diagnostic as well as drug targets. Further, the identification of crossreactive gene targets from the sputum samples of other lung diseases will help to find the diagnostic candidates which will be highly specific to pulmonary tuberculosis.
Project description:The aim of this study is to characterise and compare the composition of the microbiota from sputum samples of cystic fibrosis sufferers from different centres. These data are part of a pre-publication release. For information on the proper use of pre-publication data shared by the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute (including details of any publication moratoria), please see http://www.sanger.ac.uk/datasharing/
