List of works by Sabine Rüsch-Gerdes

A Pyrosequencing assay for rapid recognition of SNPs in Mycobacterium tuberculosis embB306 region.

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A joint cross-border investigation of a cluster of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in Austria, Romania and Germany in 2014 using classic, genotyping and whole genome sequencing methods: lessons learnt

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ALOX5 variants associated with susceptibility to human pulmonary tuberculosis

scientific article published on 3 January 2008

Assessment of an optimized mycobacterial interspersed repetitive- unit-variable-number tandem-repeat typing system combined with spoligotyping for population-based molecular epidemiology studies of tuberculosis

scientific article published on 27 December 2006

Autophagy gene variant IRGM -261T contributes to protection from tuberculosis caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis but not by M. africanum strains

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Biochemical and genetic evidence for the transfer of Mycobacterium tuberculosis subsp. caprae Aranaz et al. 1999 to the species Mycobacterium bovis Karlson and Lessel 1970 (approved lists 1980) as Mycobacterium bovis subsp. caprae comb. nov.

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CTLA4 Autoimmunity-Associated Genotype Contributes to Severe Pulmonary Tuberculosis in an African Population

scientific article published on 17 July 2009

Characteristics of drug-resistant tuberculosis in Abkhazia (Georgia), a high-prevalence area in Eastern Europe

scientific article published on 17 June 2009

Clinical evaluation of the semiautomated BDProbeTec ET System for the detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in respiratory and nonrespiratory specimens

scientific article published in April 2004

Contact investigation after a fatal case of extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB) in an aircraft, Germany, July 2013

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Direct drug susceptibility testing of Mycobacterium tuberculosis for rapid detection of multidrug resistance using the Bactec MGIT 960 system: a multicenter study

scientific article published on 7 December 2011

Disequilibrium in distribution of resistance mutations among Mycobacterium tuberculosis Beijing and non-Beijing strains isolated from patients in Germany

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Drug-susceptibility testing in TB: current status and future prospects

scientific article published on October 2009

Emergence of extensive drug resistance during treatment for multidrug-resistant tuberculosis

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Epidemiology of tuberculosis in Hamburg, Germany: long-term population-based analysis applying classical and molecular epidemiological techniques

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Evaluation of Mycobacterium tuberculosis typing methods in a 4-year study in Schleswig-Holstein, Northern Germany

scientific article published on 12 October 2011

Evaluation of genotype MTBC assay for differentiation of clinical Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex isolates

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Evaluation of molecular-Beacon, TaqMan, and fluorescence resonance energy transfer probes for detection of antibiotic resistance-conferring single nucleotide polymorphisms in mixed Mycobacterium tuberculosis DNA extracts

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Evaluation of the GenoType MTBDRplus assay for rifampin and isoniazid susceptibility testing of Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains and clinical specimens

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Evaluation of the GenoType Mycobacterium Assay for identification of mycobacterial species from cultures

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Evolutionary history and global spread of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis Beijing lineage

scientific article published on 19 January 2015

Feasibility of the GenoType MTBDRsl assay for fluoroquinolone, amikacin-capreomycin, and ethambutol resistance testing of Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains and clinical specimens

scientific article published on 22 April 2009

First evaluation after implementation of a quality control system for the second line drug susceptibility testing of Mycobacterium tuberculosis joint efforts in low and high incidence countries

scientific article (publication date: 2013)

First linezolid-resistant clinical isolates of Mycobacterium tuberculosis

scientific article published on 22 January 2007

Genetic characterization of German Mycobacterium avium strains isolated from different hosts and specimens by multilocus sequence typing

scientific article published on 28 June 2014

High genetic diversity among Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex strains from Sierra Leone

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High prevalence of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis, Swaziland, 2009-2010.

scientific article published in January 2012

IL10 Haplotype Associated with Tuberculin Skin Test Response but Not with Pulmonary TB

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Impact of Fgd1 and ddn diversity in Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex on in vitro susceptibility to PA-824.

scientific article published on 19 September 2011

In vitro-selected linezolid-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis mutants

scientific article published on 10 December 2007

Integration of molecular typing results into tuberculosis surveillance in Germany-A pilot study.

scientific article published on 22 November 2017

Management of patients with multidrug-resistant/extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis in Europe: a TBNET consensus statement

scientific article published on 23 March 2014

Molecular epidemiology of pulmonary tuberculosis in belgrade, central serbia

scientific article published in September 2003

Molecular epidemiology of tuberculosis among immigrants in Hamburg, Germany

scientific article published on July 2004

Multicenter evaluation of fully automated BACTEC Mycobacteria Growth Indicator Tube 960 system for susceptibility testing of Mycobacterium tuberculosis

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Multicenter laboratory validation of the BACTEC MGIT 960 technique for testing susceptibilities of Mycobacterium tuberculosis to classical second-line drugs and newer antimicrobials

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Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis treatment outcomes in Karakalpakstan, Uzbekistan: treatment complexity and XDR-TB among treatment failures

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Multilocus Sequence Analysis and rpoB Sequencing of Mycobacterium abscessus (Sensu Lato) Strains

scientific article published on November 24, 2010

Multilocus sequence typing scheme for the Mycobacterium abscessus complex

scientific article published on 31 December 2013

Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis infection in a patient with HIV, Germany

scientific article published on July 2002

Mycobacterium bovis isolates with M. tuberculosis specific characteristics

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Mycobacterium bovis subsp. caprae Caused One-Third of Human M. bovis-Associated Tuberculosis Cases Reported in Germany between 1999 and 2001

scientific article (publication date: July 2003)

Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex genetic diversity: mining the fourth international spoligotyping database (SpolDB4) for classification, population genetics and epidemiology

scientific article (publication date: 6 March 2006)

Mycobacterium tuberculosis pyrazinamide resistance determinants: a multicenter study

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New Mycobacterium tuberculosis Complex Sublineage, Brazzaville, Congo

scientific article published on March 2017

Occupational risk of tuberculosis transmission in a low incidence area

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Occurrence of rpoB mutations in isoniazid-resistant but rifampin-susceptible Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates from Germany

scientific article published on 21 October 2013

Origin, spread and demography of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex

scientific article published in 2008

Proposal for standardization of optimized mycobacterial interspersed repetitive unit-variable-number tandem repeat typing of Mycobacterium tuberculosis

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Pulmonary tuberculosis due to Mycobacterium bovis subsp. caprae in captive Siberian tiger

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Pulmonary tuberculosis: virulence of Mycobacterium africanum and relevance in HIV co-infection

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Rapid Detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Beijing Genotype Strains by Real-Time PCR

scholarly article by Doris Hillemann et al published 1 September 2006 in Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Rapid detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Beijing genotype strains by real-time PCR.

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Rapid molecular detection of extrapulmonary tuberculosis by the automated GeneXpert MTB/RIF system

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Risk of acquired drug resistance during short-course directly observed treatment of tuberculosis in an area with high levels of drug resistance

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Sequence analyses of just four genes to detect extensively drug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains in multidrug-resistant tuberculosis patients undergoing treatment.

scientific article published on 26 May 2009

Sequence analysis for detection of first-line drug resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains from a high-incidence setting

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Significance of mutations in embB codon 306 for prediction of ethambutol resistance in clinical Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates

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Single-nucleotide polymorphisms in Rv2629 are specific for Mycobacterium tuberculosis genotypes Beijing and Ghana but not associated with rifampin resistance

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Testing of susceptibility of Mycobacterium tuberculosis to pyrazinamide with the nonradiometric BACTEC MGIT 960 system

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Thr202Ala in thyA is a marker for the Latin American Mediterranean lineage of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex rather than para-aminosalicylic acid resistance.

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Treatment of tuberculosis in a region with high drug resistance: outcomes, drug resistance amplification and re-infection

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Tuberculosis Treatment Outcome and Drug Resistance in Lambaréné, Gabon: A Prospective Cohort Study

scientific article published on 27 June 2016

Tuberculosis ethambutol resistance: concordance between phenotypic and genotypic test results

scientific article published on 2 October 2009

Tuberculosis recurrence and mortality after successful treatment: impact of drug resistance

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Use of the BACTEC Mycobacteria Growth Indicator Tube 960 automated system for recovery of Mycobacteria from 9,558 extrapulmonary specimens, including urine samples

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Usefulness of the GenoType MTBC assay for differentiating species of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex in cultures obtained from clinical specimens

scientific article published on September 2004

Variant G57E of Mannose Binding Lectin Associated with Protection against Tuberculosis Caused by Mycobacterium africanum but not by M. tuberculosis

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Whole genome sequencing reveals complex evolution patterns of multidrug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis Beijing strains in patients

scientific article (publication date: 2013)

Whole genome sequencing versus traditional genotyping for investigation of a Mycobacterium tuberculosis outbreak: a longitudinal molecular epidemiological study

scientific article (publication date: 2013)

Worldwide emergence of extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis

scientific article published on March 2007

embCAB sequence variation among ethambutol-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates without embB306 mutation

scientific article published on 28 April 2010