Mutations in the rpoB gene of multidrug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates from China

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 41, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 2209-2212

  Yue, Jun ^a,b   Shi, Wei ^a,c   Xie, Jingping ^a   Li, Yao ^a,c   Zeng, Erliang ^a,c   Wang, Honghai ^a  

^a FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Shanghai Pneumology Hospital   (China)

^c Shanghai BioStar Genechip Institute   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CHINA; DNA SEQUENCE; DRUG SENSITIVITY; GENE; GENE INSERTION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RPOB GENE;

ALLELES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTIBIOTICS, ANTITUBERCULAR; BASE SEQUENCE; CHINA; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; RIFAMPIN; TUBERCULOSIS;

ACTINOBACTERIA (CLASS); ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); INSERTION SEQUENCES; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PROKARYOTA; UNCULTURED ACTINOMYCETE;

EID: 0037613722     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.41.5.2209-2212.2003     Document Type: Article

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