Comprehensive Resistance Prediction for Tuberculosis: an International Consortium (CRyPTIC)
About the project
CRyPTIC’s aim was to help improve control of tuberculosis and facilitate WHO’s End TB Strategy by better, faster and more targeted treatment of drug-resistant tuberculosis via genetic resistance prediction, paving the way towards universal drug susceptibility testing (DST).
Our ultimate goal was to achieve sufficiently accurate genetic prediction of resistance to most anti-tuberculosis drugs, so that whole genome sequencing can replace culture-based DST for TB. This will enable rapid-turnaround near-to-patient assays to revolutionise MDR-TB identification and management. This project was funded by MRC Newton Fund, Wellcome Trust, and Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. It ran from 2016-2021 and was led by Professor Derrick Crook, University of Oxford.
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