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List of works by Elizabeth Streicher

A Global Perspective on Pyrazinamide Resistance: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

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A recently evolved sublineage of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis Beijing strain family is associated with an increased ability to spread and cause disease

scientific article published on 14 March 2007

Abstracts from the 6th Infection Control Africa Network Congress 2016: Johannesburg, South Africa. 26-28 September 2016.

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An overview of the phenotypic and genotypic characteristics of multidrug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates from four Asian countries

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Author Correction: Genome-wide analysis of multi- and extensively drug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis.

scientific article published on 19 April 2018

Bacterial Genotyping of Central Nervous System Tuberculosis in South Africa: Heterogenic Mycobacterium tuberculosis Infection and Predominance of Lineage 4

scientific article published on 26 July 2019

Biology of clinical strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis with varying levels of transmission

scientific article published on 9 February 2018

Characterization of W-Beijing isolates of Mycobacterium tuberculosis from the Western Cape.

scientific article published on 19 October 2013

Clonal expansion of a globally disseminated lineage of Mycobacterium tuberculosis with low IS6110 copy numbers.

scientific article published on December 2004

Correction: Drug-Associated Adverse Events and Their Relationship with Outcomes in Patients Receiving Treatment for Extensively Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis in South Africa

scientific article (publication date: 31 May 2013)

Cryptic Microheteroresistance Explains Mycobacterium tuberculosis Phenotypic Resistance

scientific article published on 14 June 2017

Detection and Quantification of Differentially Culturable Tubercle Bacteria in Sputum from Patients with Tuberculosis.

scientific article published on 7 July 2016

Drug resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis

scientific article published on 01 July 2006

Drug-associated adverse events and their relationship with outcomes in patients receiving treatment for extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis in South Africa

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Drug-resistant tuberculosis epidemic in the Western Cape driven by a virulent Beijing genotype strain.

scientific article published in January 2010

Early treatment outcomes and HIV status of patients with extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis in South Africa: a retrospective cohort study

scientific article published in May 2010

Emergence and spread of extensively and totally drug-resistant tuberculosis, South Africa

scientific article published on March 2013

Emergence and treatment of multidrug resistant (MDR) and extensively drug-resistant (XDR) tuberculosis in South Africa

scientific article published on 04 August 2011

Emergence of increased resistance and extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis despite treatment adherence, South Africa

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Epistasis between antibiotic resistance mutations drives the evolution of extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis.

scientific article published on January 2013

Evaluation of the Xpert MTB/RIF assay for the diagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis in a high HIV prevalence setting

scientific article published on 14 April 2011

Fluorometric assay for testing rifampin susceptibility of Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex.

scientific article published on 27 February 2008

Genetic Determinants of Drug Resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis and Their Diagnostic Value

scientific article published on 24 February 2016

Genetic diversity and potential routes of transmission of Mycobacterium bovis in Mozambique

scientific article published on 18 January 2018

Genetic diversity of Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex strains isolated from livestock workers and cattle in Nigeria

scientific article published on 20 February 2019

Genetic diversity of Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolated from tuberculosis patients in the Serengeti ecosystem in Tanzania

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Genetic diversity of Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains circulating in Botswana

scientific article published on 07 May 2019

Genetic profile of Mycobacterium tuberculosis and treatment outcomes in human pulmonary tuberculosis in Tanzania

scientific article published in April 2014

Genome-wide analysis of multi- and extensively drug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis

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Genomic analysis identifies targets of convergent positive selection in drug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis

scientific article published on September 2013

Genotype MTBDRsl line probe assay shortens time to diagnosis of extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis in a high-throughput diagnostic laboratory

scientific article published on 18 October 2012

Genotypic and Phenotypic Characterization of Drug-Resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis Isolates from Rural Districts of the Western Cape Province of South Africa.

scientific article published in April 2004

Genotypic and phenotypic characterization of drug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates from rural districts of the Western Cape Province of South Africa.

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Geospatial distribution of Mycobacterium tuberculosis genotypes in Africa

scientific article published in PLoS ONE

High frequency of resistance, lack of clinical benefit, and poor outcomes in capreomycin treated South African patients with extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis

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Identification of MDR-TB Beijing/W and other Mycobacterium tuberculosis genotypes in Nairobi, Kenya.

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Implementation of genotype MTBDRplus reduces time to multidrug-resistant tuberculosis therapy initiation in South Africa

scientific article published on 22 October 2012

Implications of Failure to Routinely Diagnose Resistance to Second-Line Drugs in Patients With Rifampicin-Resistant Tuberculosis on Xpert MTB/RIF: A Multisite Observational Study

scientific article published on 12 February 2017

Infection of African buffalo (Syncerus caffer) by oryx bacillus, a rare member of the antelope clade of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex

scientific article published in October 2012

Isolation and Potential for Transmission of Mycobacterium bovis at Human-livestock-wildlife Interface of the Serengeti Ecosystem, Northern Tanzania

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Isoniazid Resistance and Dosage as Treatment for Patients with Tuberculosis

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Long-term outcomes of patients with extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis in South Africa: a cohort study

scientific article published on 17 January 2014

Low Frequency of Acquired Isoniazid and Rifampicin Resistance in Rifampicin-Susceptible Pulmonary Tuberculosis in a Setting of High HIV-1 Infection and Tuberculosis Coprevalence

scientific article published on September 2017

Microevolution of the direct repeat region of Mycobacterium tuberculosis: implications for interpretation of spoligotyping data.

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Minority Mycobacterium tuberculosis Genotypic Populations as an Indicator of Subsequent Phenotypic Resistance

scientific article published on 01 December 2019

Modification of the QuantiFERON-TB Gold (In-Tube) assay for the diagnosis of Mycobacterium bovis infection in African buffaloes (Syncerus caffer)

scientific article published on 20 April 2011

Molecular Epidemiological Interpretation of the Epidemic of Extensively Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis in South Africa.

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Molecular characterisation of Mycobacterium bovis isolated from African buffaloes ( Syncerus caffer ) in Hluhluwe-iMfolozi Park in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

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Mutations in the rrs A1401G Gene and Phenotypic Resistance to Amikacin and Capreomycin in Mycobacterium tuberculosis

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Mycobacterium tuberculosis Population Structure Determines the Outcome of Genetics-Based Second-Line Drug Resistance Testing

scientific article published on February 13, 2012

Mycobacterium tuberculosis Subculture Results in Loss of Potentially Clinically Relevant Heteroresistance.

scientific article published on 11 September 2017

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 pncA Polymorphisms That Do Not Confer Pyrazinamide Resistance at a Breakpoint Concentration of 100 Micrograms per Milliliter in MGIT.

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Novel katG mutations causing isoniazid resistance in clinical M. tuberculosis isolates.

scientific article published on 15 July 2015

Outcomes, infectiousness, and transmission dynamics of patients with extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis and home-discharged patients with programmatically incurable tuberculosis: a prospective cohort study

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Patients with active tuberculosis often have different strains in the same sputum specimen

scientific article published on 30 December 2003

Population structure of mixed Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection is strain genotype and culture medium dependent

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Population structure of multi- and extensively drug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains in South Africa

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Predominance of a single genotype of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in regions of Southern Africa

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Prevalence of pyrazinamide resistance across the spectrum of drug resistant phenotypes of Mycobacterium tuberculosis

scientific article published on 30 May 2016

Programmatically selected multidrug-resistant strains drive the emergence of extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis in South Africa

scientific article (publication date: 2013)

Pulmonary infection due to the dassie bacillus (Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex sp.) in a free-living dassie (rock hyrax-Procavia capensis) from South Africa

scientific article published on 22 October 2007

Rapid sequencing of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis pncA gene for detection of pyrazinamide susceptibility

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Recombination in pe/ppe genes contributes to genetic variation in Mycobacterium tuberculosis lineages

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Recovery of Mycobacterium tuberculosis from positive mycobacterium growth indicator tubes stored at room temperature for up to 6 years in low-income and High-Tuberculosis-Burden Country

scientific article published on 01 April 2019

Rise in rifampicin-monoresistant tuberculosis in Western Cape, South Africa.

scientific article published on February 2012

Spoligotype Signatures in the Mycobacterium tuberculosis Complex.

scientific article published in September 2007

Spoligotype signatures in the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex.

scientific article published on 25 October 2006

Spread of a low-fitness drug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis strain in a setting of high human immunodeficiency virus prevalence

scientific article published on 13 February 2008

Spread of an emerging Mycobacterium tuberculosis drug-resistant strain in the western Cape of South Africa

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The clinical relevance of Mycobacterial pharmacogenetics.

scientific article published in May 2009

The diagnostic accuracy of the MTBDRplus and MTBDRsl assays for drug-resistant TB detection when performed on sputum and culture isolates

scientific article published on 10 February 2016

The non-clonality of drug resistance in Beijing-genotype isolates of Mycobacterium tuberculosis from the Western Cape of South Africa

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The potential use of rifabutin for treatment of patients diagnosed with rifampicin-resistant tuberculosis

scientific article published on 01 October 2018

Treatment outcomes of isoniazid-resistant tuberculosis patients, Western Cape Province, South Africa

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Using routinely collected laboratory data to identify high rifampicin-resistant tuberculosis burden communities in the Western Cape Province, South Africa: A retrospective spatiotemporal analysis

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Versatility of 7-Substituted Coumarin Molecules as Antimycobacterial Agents, Neuronal Enzyme Inhibitors and Neuroprotective Agents.

scientific article published on 30 September 2017

Whole genome sequencing reveals genomic heterogeneity and antibiotic purification in Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates

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embB306 mutations as molecular indicators to predict ethambutol susceptibility in Mycobacterium tuberculosis

scientific article published on 17 November 2012

gyrA mutations and phenotypic susceptibility levels to ofloxacin and moxifloxacin in clinical isolates of Mycobacterium tuberculosis

scientific article published on 22 February 2012

inhA promoter mutations: a gateway to extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis in South Africa?

scientific article published in March 2011