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Discordant resistance to kanamycin and amikacin in drug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis.
Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy - 1 Sept 2003
Krüüner Annika, Jureen Pontus, Levina Klavdia, Ghebremichael Solomon, Hoffner Sven
Abstract excerpt
It is generally thought that there is full cross-resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis between the aminoglycoside drugs kanamycin and amikacin. However, kanamycin resistance and amikacin susceptibility were seen in 43 of 79 (54%) multidrug-resistant Estonian isolates, indicating that there mig...
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