Along with Alberto Garcia-Basteiro and many others, Marcel co-piloted the creation and editing of the Global TB Dictionary, a consensus TB dictionary to unify the language we speak.
Since its launch in 2024, the TB Dictionary has had 23,000 views by 2,900 total users.
BCG strains that are mono-resistant to drugs used for TB
Sarah Danchuk has engineered a panel of recombinant BCG strains that are mono-resistant to drugs used for TB. Strains available by request or also deposited at the BCCM/ITM Mycobacteria collection.
Danchuk S, McIntosh F, Jamieson FB, May K, Behr MA. . Clinical Microbiology and Infection, 2020 Mar; 26(3): 384.e5-384.e8
The rBCG strains have been used in Sarah N Danchuk, Ori E Solomon, Thomas Andreas Kohl, Viola Dreyer, Ivan Barilar, Christian Utpatel, Stefan Niemann, Dick van Soolingen, Richard Anthony, Jakko van Ingen, Joy S Michael, Marcel A Behr. . Thorax. 2024 Jun 14;79(7):670-675. doi: 10.1136/thorax-2023-220202.
Ancestral sequence for the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex
Luke Harrison has imputed the ancestral sequence for the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex, called MTBC 0. The sequence can also be accessed via Mycobrowser.
This program serves to perform BLAST searches then parses the TBLASTN result files with PERL scripts in order to select the highest score for each protein. Obtained data, including the score, are then stored on a local MYSQL database. It was first published in :
