Molecular mechanisms of drug resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis clinical isolates

Chinese Medical Journal

Volumn 112, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 524-528

  Wu, Xueqiong ^a   Zhang, Junxian ^a   Zhuang, Yuhui ^a   Zhang, Xiaogang ^a   Li, Guoli ^a   He, Xiuyun ^a  

^a 309TH HOSPITAL OF PLA   (China)

Author keywords

Drug resistance; Mycobacterium, tuberculosis; Nucleotide sequence analyses; Polymerase chain reaction; Restriction fragment length polymorphism; Single strand conformation polymorphism

Indexed keywords

TUBERCULOSTATIC AGENT;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; GENE MUTATION; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TUBERCULOSIS;

ANTITUBERCULAR AGENTS; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; HUMANS; ISONIAZID; MUTATION; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; RIFAMPIN; STREPTOMYCIN;

EID: 0033019302     PISSN: 03666999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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