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Role of gyrB Mutations in Pre-extensively and Extensively Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis in Thai Clinical Isolates.
Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy - 1 Sept 2016
Disratthakit Areeya, Prammananan Therdsak, Tribuddharat Chanwit, Thaipisuttikul Iyarit, Doi Norio, Leechawengwongs Manoon, Chaiprasert Angkana
Abstract excerpt
DNA gyrase mutations are a major cause of quinolone resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis We therefore conducted the first comprehensive study to determine the diversity of gyrase mutations in pre-extensively drug-resistant (pre-XDR) (n = 71) and extensively drug-resistant (XDR) (n = 30) Thai clinical tuberculosis (TB) isolates. All pre-XDR-TB and XDR-TB isolates carried at least one mutation within the...
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