Detection of resistance-associated mutations in Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates in Cameroon using a dot-blot hybridisation technique

African Journal of Biotechnology

Volumn 10, Issue 53, 2011, Pages 11016-11022

  Mbacham, Wilfred Fon ^a   Tientcheu, Leopold Djomkam ^a   Penlap, Veronique Beng ^a   Kuaban, Christopher ^a   Eyangoh, Sara ^b   Wang, Hubert ^c   Bickii, Jean ^d   Netongo, Palmer Masumbe ^a   Lembe, William Titi ^c   Abega, Olama ^a   Njifutie, Njikam ^a   Pride, Teyim ^a   Khan, Baldip ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YAOUNDÉ I   (Cameroon)

^b CENTRE PASTEUR DU CAMEROUN   (Cameroon)

^c National Committee for the Fight against Tuberculosis   (Cameroon)

^d The Institute for Medical and Medicinal Plant Research   (Cameroon)

^e INTERNATIONAL ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Dot blot hybridization; Drug resistance; Gene mutations; Tuberculosis

Indexed keywords

ETHAMBUTOL; ISONIAZID; RIFAMPICIN; STREPTOMYCIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL MUTATION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; CAMEROON; CODON; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOT HYBRIDIZATION; EMBB GENE; FEMALE; GENDER; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE MUTATION; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; KATG GENE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MONOTHERAPY; MUTATION RATE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RPOB GENE; RPSL GENE; RRS GENE;

MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 80052959075     PISSN: 16845315     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5897/ajb10.1867     Document Type: Article

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