Isolation of three Mycobacterium ulcerans strains resistant to rifampin after experimental chemotherapy of mice.

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By use of a murine model for Buruli ulcer, Mycobacterium ulcerans was found to be susceptible to rifampin, with the MIC being 0.5 to 1 micro g/ml. Three mutants were isolated after rifampin monotherapy. Two were resistant to rifampin at 8 micro g/ml, and one was resistant to rifampin at 32 micro g/ml. The mutants harbored Ser416Phe mutations and His420Tyr mutations in the rpoB gene, and these mutations have also...

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