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Microarray-based pncA genotyping of pyrazinamide-resistant strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis.
Journal of medical microbiology - 1 Dec 2005
Denkin Steven, Volokhov Dmitriy, Chizhikov Vladimir, Zhang Ying
Abstract excerpt
Drug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis poses a significant threat to the treatment of tuberculosis (TB). The current susceptibility testing for the first-line TB drug pyrazinamide (PZA) is not only time-consuming but also difficult, due to the requirement for acid pH for drug activity. Predominantly, resistance to PZA in M. tuberculosis is caused by mutations in the pncA gene, and the detection of pncA...
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