Association of mutations in rpsL gene with high degree of streptomycin resistance in clinical isolates of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in India

Indian Journal of Medical Research

Volumn 129, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 108-110

  Das, Ram ^a   Gupta, Pushpa ^a   Singh, Pushpendra ^a   Chauhan, D S ^a   Katoch, Kiran ^a   Katoch, Vishwa Mohan ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL JALMA INSTITUTE FOR LEPROSY AND OTHER MYCOBACTERIAL DISEASES   (India)

^b INDIAN COUNCIL OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; PROTEIN RPSL; STREPTOMYCIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMPLIFIED FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CODON USAGE; DRUG SENSITIVITY; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; HUMAN; INDIA; LETTER; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE CHARACTERIZED AMPLIFIED REGION;

BASE SEQUENCE; HUMANS; INDIA; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; RIBOSOME SUBUNITS, SMALL, BACTERIAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; STREPTOMYCIN;

EID: 65949111287     PISSN: 09715916     EISSN: 09715916     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Letter

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