Rapid detection of mutations associated with macrolide resistance in Mycobacterium avium complex

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 40, Issue 7, 1996, Pages 1748-1750

  Nash, Kevin A ^a,b   Inderlied, Clark B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CHILDREN S HOSPITAL LOS ANGELES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZITHROMYCIN; CLARITHROMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MUTATION; COLONY FORMING UNIT; DNA SEQUENCE; MYCOBACTERIOSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM INTRACELLULARE AVIUM; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA RNA HYBRIDIZATION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SINGLE STRAND CONFORMATION POLYMORPHISM;

EID: 0029991789     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aac.40.7.1748     Document Type: Article

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