posted on 2023-05-18, 04:33authored byO'Toole, RF, Johari, BM, Mac Aogain, M, Rogers, TR, Bower, JE, Basu, I, Freeman, JT
Extensively drug-resistant (XDR) tuberculosis has now been described in >90 countries worldwide. The first case of XDR tuberculosis (XDR-TB) in New Zealand was recorded in 2010. We report the draft whole-genome sequence of the New Zealand isolate, NZXDR1, and describe a number of single-nucleotide polymorphisms that relate to drug resistance.
History
Publication title
Genome Announcements
Article number
e00319-14
Number
e00319-14
Pagination
1-2
ISSN
2169-8287
Department/School
Tasmanian School of Medicine
Publisher
American Society for Microbiology
Place of publication
United States
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Copyright 2014 The Authors-This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license. (CC BY 3.0).