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Mutations in extensively drug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis that do not code for known drug-resistance mechanisms.
The Journal of infectious diseases - 15 Mar 2010
Motiwala Alifiya S, Dai Yang, Jones-López Edward C, Hwang Soo-Hee, Lee Jong Seok, Cho Sang Nae, Via Laura E, Barry Clifton E, Alland David
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BACKGROUND: Highly lethal outbreaks of multidrug-resistant (MDR) and extensively drug-resistant (XDR) tuberculosis are increasing. Whole-genome sequencing of KwaZulu-Natal MDR and XDR outbreak strains prevalent in human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-infected patients by the Broad Institute identified 22 novel mutations which were unique to the XDR genome or shared only by the MDR and XDR genomes and not already...
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