George S. Long, Mackenzie Neale, Thomas Braukmann, Vanessa Tran, Nishant K. Singh, Vanessa Allen, Muhammad Morshed, Jessica Minion, Paul Van Caeseele, Maud Vallée, Todd Hatchette, Samir N. Patel, RSW Tsang, Venkata R. Duvvuri
We inspected 16S rRNA sequences of 784 publicly available Treponema pallidum subspecies pallidum genomes and 17 new T. pallidum subsp. pallidum genomes from Canada for putative mutations associated with doxycycline resistance. Variants were detected in 9 non-Canada genomes. These findings establish a global genomic baseline for monitoring doxycycline resistance in syphilis.