Project name: Mycobacterium tuberculosis CDC1551

Description: Mycobacterium tuberculosis strain CDC1551. This strain, also nicknamed "Oshkosh", is a recent clinical isolate from a clothing factory worker from the Kentucky/Tennessee, USA, region. It is highly contagious, infecting approximately 80% of the patient's social contacts. However, this strain has not caused epidemics in man and is sensitive to a wide range of drugs. It is also highly virulent in a mouse lung model, producing several orders of magnitude more bacteria than the H37Rv strain when inoculated.

Data type: Genome sequencing

Sample scope: Monoisolate

Release date: 2002-11-22

Last updated: 2003-02-25