Rifampicin resistance and mutation of the rpoB gene in Mycobacterium tuberculosis

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 144, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 103-108

  Taniguchi, Hatsumi ^a   Aramaki, Hironori ^b   Nikaido, Yoshihiko ^a   Mizuguchi, Yasuo ^c   Nakamura, Masahiro ^d   Koga, Toshihiko ^d   Yoshida, Shin Ichi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OCCUPATIONAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH   (Japan)

^b DAIICHI UNIVERSITY OF PHARMACY   (Japan)

^c Public Health Laboratory of Chiba Prefecture   (Japan)

^d Koga Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

level of resistance; mutational site; Mycobacterium tuberculosis; rifampicin resistance; rpoB gene

Indexed keywords

RIFAMPICIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG ACTIVITY; DRUG EFFICACY; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 0030588059     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0378-1097(96)00346-1     Document Type: Article

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