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Evaluation of genetic mutations associated with Mycobacterium tuberculosis resistance to amikacin, kanamycin and capreomycin: a systematic review.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2012
Georghiou Sophia B, Magana Marisa, Garfein Richard S, Catanzaro Donald G, Catanzaro Antonino, Rodwell Timothy C
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BACKGROUND: Rapid molecular diagnostics for detecting multidrug-resistant and extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (M/XDR-TB) primarily identify mutations in Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) genes associated with drug resistance. Their accuracy, however, is dependent largely on the strength of the association between a specific mutation and the phenotypic resistance of the isolate with that mutation, which is...
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