Detection of kanamycin-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis by identifying mutations in the 16S rRNA gene

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 1220-1225

  Suzuki, Yasuhiko ^a   Katsukawa, Chihiro ^a   Tamaru, Aki ^a   Abe, Chiyoji ^b   Makino, Masanao ^c   Mizuguchi, Yasuo ^d   Taniguchi, Hatsumi ^e  

^a OSAKA PREFECTURAL INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Japan)

^b RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF TUBERCULOSIS   (Japan)

^c National Leprosarium   (Japan)

^d Public Health Laboratory of Chiba Prefecture   (Japan)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OCCUPATIONAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ETHAMBUTOL; ISONIAZID; KANAMYCIN; RESTRICTION ENDONUCLEASE; RIBOSOME RNA; RIFAMPICIN; RNA 16S; STREPTOMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; GENE MUTATION; GENOTYPE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID BASE SUBSTITUTION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; RNA GENE; TUBERCULOSIS;

MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; POSIBACTERIA;

EID: 0031958711     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jcm.36.5.1220-1225.1998     Document Type: Article

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