Restriction endonuclease analysis as a solution for determining rifampin resistance mutations by automated DNA sequencing in heteroresistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains

Microbial Drug Resistance

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 137-140

  Karahan, Zeynep Ceren ^a,b   Akar, Nejat ^a  

^a ANKARA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b NONE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ETHAMBUTOL; ISONIAZID; RESTRICTION ENDONUCLEASE; RIFAMPICIN; RNA POLYMERASE; STREPTOMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BETA CHAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE MUTATION; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTION MAPPING; RPOB GENE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

ADULT; ANTIBIOTICS, ANTITUBERCULAR; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA RESTRICTION ENZYMES; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; RIFAMPIN; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 18944381573     PISSN: 10766294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/mdr.2005.11.137     Document Type: Article

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