The World Health Organization published its first catalogue of mutations in M. tuberculosis known to be associated with resistance to a range of antibiotics in June 2021.

Hot on the heels of the press release, the Economist have published an article describing the work of the CRyPTIC project. Note that it is behind

You can hear the CRyPTIC Principal Investigator, Prof Derrick Crook, talking about the project and its impact on tuberculosis on News Hour on the BBC World Service here. The segment starts about

Using cutting-edge genomic sequencing techniques, researchers at the University of Oxford have identified almost all the genomic variation that gives people resistance to 13 of the most common tuberculosis (TB) drug treatments.