Comment on: Isoniazid and rifampicin resistance-associated mutations in Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates from Yangon, Myanmar: Implications for rapid molecular testing

Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy

Volumn 66, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 686-687

  Köser, Claudio U ^a   Summers, David K ^a   Archer, John A C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b KING ABDULLAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Isoniazid resistance; Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex; Phylogenetic diversity

Indexed keywords

ALANINE; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; GLYCINE; ISONIAZID; PROTEIN OXYR'; RIFAMPICIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CODON; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE MUTATION; GENOTYPE; LETTER; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MYANMAR; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; PSEUDOGENE;

ANTITUBERCULAR AGENTS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; ISONIAZID; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MOLECULAR DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES; MUTATION, MISSENSE; MYANMAR; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; RIFAMPIN; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 79951525740     PISSN: 03057453     EISSN: 14602091     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jac/dkq492     Document Type: Letter

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