pncA Mutations in pyrazinamide-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates from northwestern Russia

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 43, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 1764-1766

  Marttila, Harri J ^a   Marjamäki, Merja ^a   Vyshnevskaya, Elena ^b   Vyshnevskiy, Boris I ^b   Otten, Tatjana F ^b   Vasilyef, Alexandr V ^b   Viljanen, Matti K ^a  

^a NATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL ENZYME; PYRAZINAMIDASE; PYRAZINAMIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DETERMINATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; STRAIN DIFFERENCE;

EID: 0344004833     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aac.43.7.1764     Document Type: Article

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