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Automated liquid culture system misses isoniazid heteroresistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates with mutations in the promoter region of the inhA gene.
European journal of clinical microbiology & infectious diseases : official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology - 1 Mar 2015
Zhang Z, Lu J, Wang Y, Pang Y, Zhao Y
Abstract excerpt
Heteroresistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates remains the major challenge for phenotypic drug susceptibility testing (DST) methods to detect drug resistance. The aim of this study was to investigate the abilities of phenotypic DST methods to identify the isoniazid (INH) heteroresistance in M. tuberculosis. We found that the broth dilution method was able to detect INH resistance if 0.5 % resistant...
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