Philippe Busso

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Evaluation of Auramine O staining and conventional PCR for leprosy diagnosis: A comparative cross-sectional study from Ethiopia

Stewart Cole, Charlotte Avanzi, Philippe Busso

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PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE2018

Whole genome sequencing distinguishes between relapse and reinfection in recurrent leprosy cases

Stewart Cole, Andrej Benjak, Charlotte Avanzi, Philippe Busso, Pushpendra Singh, Jérémie Piton, Chloé Marie Loiseau

Background Since leprosy is both treated and controlled by multidrug therapy (MDT) it is important to monitor recurrent cases for drug resistance and to distinguish between relapse and reinfection as a means of assessing therapeutic efficacy. All three obj ...

Public Library Science2017

Red squirrels in the British Isles are infected with leprosy bacilli

Stewart Cole, Andrej Benjak, Charlotte Avanzi, Philippe Busso, Jérémie Piton, Chloé Marie Loiseau

Leprosy, caused by infection with Mycobacterium leprae or the recently discovered Mycobacterium lepromatosis, was once endemic in humans in the British Isles. Red squirrels in Great Britain (Sciurus vulgaris) have increasingly been observed with leprosy-li ...

American Association for the Advancement of Science2016

Transmission of drug-resistant leprosy in Guinea-Conakry detected by molecular epidemiological approaches

Stewart Cole, Andrej Benjak, Charlotte Avanzi, Philippe Busso, Chloé Marie Loiseau

Molecular drug susceptibility testing was performed on skin biopsies from 24 leprosy patients from Guinea-Conakry for the first time. We identified primary drug resistance in 4 cases and a dapsone-resistant cluster caused by the same strain. Primary transm ...

Oxford Univ Press Inc2016

Insight into the evolution and origin of leprosy bacilli from the genome sequence of Mycobacterium lepromatosis

Stewart Cole, Andrej Benjak, Charlotte Avanzi, Philippe Busso, Pushpendra Singh

Mycobacterium lepromatosis is an uncultured human pathogen associated with diffuse lepromatous leprosy and a reactional state known as Lucio's phenomenon. By using deep sequencing with and without DNA enrichment, we obtained the near-complete genome sequen ...

National Academy of Sciences2015

Lansoprazole is an antituberculous prodrug targeting cytochrome bc1

Stewart Cole, Florence Pojer, Claudia Sala, Andrej Benjak, Anthony Vocat, Philippe Busso, Jan Lars Rybniker

Better antibiotics capable of killing multi-drug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis are urgently needed. Despite extensive drug discovery efforts, only a few promising candidates are on the horizon and alternative screening protocols are required. Here, ...

Nature Publishing Group2015

Mycobacterium lepromatosis Infections in Nuevo Leon, Mexico

Stewart Cole, Andrej Benjak, Charlotte Avanzi, Philippe Busso, Pushpendra Singh

The frequency of infection caused by the recently described pathogen Mycobacterium lepromatosis is unknown. Here, we describe the demographics, clinical characteristics, and therapeutic outcomes of five lepromatous leprosy patients suffering from M. leprom ...

American Society for Microbiology2015

Genome-wide re-sequencing of multidrug-resistant Mycobacterium leprae Airaku-3

Stewart Cole, Jacques Rougemont, Andrej Benjak, Charlotte Avanzi, Philippe Busso, Pushpendra Singh

Genotyping and molecular characterization of drug resistance mechanisms in Mycobacterium leprae enables disease transmission and drug resistance trends to be monitored. In the present study, we performed genome-wide analysis of Airaku-3, a multidrug-resist ...

Wiley-Blackwell2014

Genome-wide comparison of medieval and modern Mycobacterium leprae

Stewart Cole, Andrej Benjak, Philippe Busso, Pushpendra Singh

Leprosy was endemic in Europe until the Middle Ages. Using DNA array capture, we have obtained genome sequences of Mycobacterium leprae from skeletons of five medieval leprosy cases from the United Kingdom, Sweden, and Denmark. In one case, the DNA was so ...

American Association for the Advancement of Science2013

Genome-Wide Definition of the SigF Regulon in Mycobacterium tuberculosis

Stewart Cole, Claudia Sala, Jacques Rougemont, Ruben Hartkoorn, Swapna Uplekar, Philippe Busso

In Mycobacterium tuberculosis the alternative sigma factor SigF controls the expression of a particular subset of genes by altering RNA polymerase specificity. Here, we utilize two genome-wide approaches to identify SigF-binding sites: chromatin immunoprec ...

American Society for Microbiology2012

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Evaluation of Auramine O staining and conventional PCR for leprosy diagnosis: A comparative cross-sectional study from Ethiopia

Stewart Cole, Charlotte Avanzi, Philippe Busso

Background ...

PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE2018