The use of whole genome sequencing for tuberculosis public health activities in Australia: a joint statement of the National Tuberculosis Advisory Committee and Communicable Diseases Genomics Network

Affiliations

• ¹ New South Wales Tuberculosis Program, Health Protection New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.
• ² The Children's Hospital at Westmead, Sydney Childrens Hospital Network, Sydney, Australia.
• ³ Sydney Infectious Diseases Institute (Sydney ID), The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia.
• ⁴ Communicable Diseases Branch, Queensland Department of Health, Brisbane, Australia.
• ⁵ Queensland Mycobacterium Reference Laboratory, Pathology Queensland, Queensland Health, Brisbane, Australia.
• ⁶ Western Australia Tuberculosis Control Program, North Metropolitan Health Service, Public Health Services, Perth, Western Australia.
• ⁷ SA Pathology, Adelaide, Australia.
• ⁸ Victorian Infectious Diseases Reference Laboratory (VIDRL), at the Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, Melbourne, Australia.
• ⁹ Department of Infectious Diseases, Doherty Institute, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia.
• ¹⁰ Microbiological Diagnostic Unti Public Health Laboratory, Department of Microbiology & Immunology, University of Melbourne at the Peter Doherty Institute for Infection & Immunity, Melbourne, Australia.
• ¹¹ Department of Infectious Diseases, Austin Health, Melbourne, Australia.
• ¹² Institute of Clinical Pathology and Medical Research - NSW Health Pathology, Sydney, Australia.
• ¹³ Royal Darwin Hospital, Darwin, Australia.
• ¹⁴ Menzies School of Health Research, Darwin, Australia.
• ¹⁵ Department of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Royal Hobart Hospital, Hobart, Australia.
• ¹⁶ University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia.
• ¹⁷ Victorian Tuberculosis Program, Melbourne Health, Melbourne, Australia.