Coresistance to isoniazid and ethionamide maps to mycothiol biosynthetic genes in Mycobacterium bovis

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 55, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 4422-4423

  Vilchèze, Catherine ^a   Av Gay, Yossef ^b   Barnes, S Whitney ^c   Larsen, Michelle H ^a   Walker, John R ^c   Glynne, Richard J ^c   Jacobs Jr , William R ^a  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c GENOMICS INSTITUTE OF THE NOVARTIS RESEARCH FOUNDATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYSTEINE; ETHIONAMIDE; GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASE; ISONIAZID;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; GENE MAPPING; GENE MUTATION; MUTANT; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANTITUBERCULAR AGENTS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CARBON-SULFUR LYASES; CYSTEINE; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; ETHIONAMIDE; GLYCOPEPTIDES; GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASES; INOSITOL; ISONIAZID; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS;

EID: 80051817552     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: 10986596     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.00564-11     Document Type: Article

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