Mutations in the rpoB gene of rifampicin-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis clinical isolates from Lithuania

International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease

Volumn 9, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 936-938

  Bakonyte, D ^a   Baranauskaite, A ^a   Cicenaite, J ^b   Sosnovskaja, A ^b   Stakenas, Petras ^a  

^a VILNIUS UNIVERSITY   (Lithuania)

^b National Tuberculosis Reference Laboratory   (Lithuania)

Author keywords

Mutation; Mycobacterium tuberculosis; Rifampin resistance; rpoB

Indexed keywords

RIFAMPICIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CODON; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE MUTATION; LITHUANIA; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RPOB GENE;

ANTIBIOTICS, ANTITUBERCULAR; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CODON; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; LITHUANIA; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RIFAMPIN;

EID: 23844559259     PISSN: 10273719     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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