Paper Info
Title
MAIS-TB: an integrated web tool for molecular epidemiology analysis
Abstract
There is growing evidence that the genetic diversity of Mycobacterium tuberculosis may have important clinical consequences. In that sense combining genetic, clinical and demographic data will allow a comprehensive view of the epidemiology of bacterial pathogens and their evolution, helping to explain how virulence and other phenotypic traits evolve in bacterial species over time. [1-2] Hence to understand TB, an integrative approach is needed. Therefore we created MAIS-TB (Molecular Analysis Information System - TB), an informatics system, which integrates molecular analysis of MTB isolates, with clinical and demographic information. This system provides a new tool to access and identify associations between tuberculosis strain types and clinical and epidemiological characteristics of the disease.
Year
DOI
Venue
2011
10.1007/978-3-642-23208-4_16
ITBAM
Keywords
Field
DocType
demographic information,bacterial pathogen,integrated web tool,informatics system,genetic diversity,demographic data,molecular analysis information system,tuberculosis strain type,important clinical consequence,molecular epidemiology analysis,bacterial species,mycobacterium tuberculosis
Informatics,Molecular epidemiology,Disease,Mycobacterium tuberculosis,Genetic diversity,Biology,Bioinformatics,Computational biology,Virulence,Tuberculosis,Phenotypic trait
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
6865
0302-9743
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Patricia Soares192.18
Carlos Penha-Gonçalves261.11
M Gabriela M Gomes381.51
José B Pereira-Leal4392.81