A Ser315Thr substitution in KatG is predominant in genetically heterogeneous multidrug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates originating from the St. Petersburg area in Russia

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 42, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 2443-2445

  Marttila, Harri J ^a   Soini, Hanna ^a   Eerola, Erkki ^b   Vyshnevskaya, Elena ^c   Vyshnevskiy, Boris I ^c   Otten, Tatjana F ^c   Vasilyef, Alexandr V ^c   Viljanen, Matti K ^a  

^a NATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^c ST PETERSBURG RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF PHTHISIOPULMONOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; CATALASE; ISONIAZID; PEROXIDASE; RIFAMPICIN; SERINE; THREONINE;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE MUTATION; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 0031716180     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aac.42.9.2443     Document Type: Article

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