Developing best practice public health standards for whole genome sequencing of Mycobacterium tuberculosis

Affiliations

• ¹ Victorian Tuberculosis Program, Melbourne, Australia.
• ² Department of Infectious Diseases at the Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Australia.
• ³ McGill International TB Centre, Montreal, Canada.
• ⁴ Centre for Infectious Disease Control, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), Bilthoven, the Netherlands.
• ⁵ TB Unit and National Mycobacterial Reference Service, United Kingdom Health Security Agency, London, UK.
• ⁶ Department of Microbiology, University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff, UK.
• ⁷ Scottish Mycobacteria Reference Laboratory, Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.
• ⁸ New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, New York, USA.
• ⁹ National Tuberculosis Programme, National Centre for Infectious Diseases, Singapore.
• ¹⁰ Institute of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, National Taiwan University College of Public Health, Taiwan.
• ¹¹ Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
• ¹² New South Wales Tuberculosis Program, Health Protection New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.
• ¹³ NSW Mycobacterium Reference Laboratory, Institute of Clinical Pathology and Medical Research, NSW Health, Australia.
• ¹⁴ Sydney Infectious Diseases Institute (Sydney ID), The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia.