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Selection of Resistance to Clarithromycin in Mycobacterium abscessus Subspecies.
Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy - 1 Jan 2017
Mougari Faiza, Bouziane Feriel, Crockett Flora, Nessar Rachid, Chau Françoise, Veziris Nicolas, Sapriel Guillaume, Raskine Laurent, Cambau Emmanuelle
Abstract excerpt
Mycobacterium abscessus is an emerging pathogen against which clarithromycin is the main drug used. Clinical failures are commonly observed and were first attributed to acquired mutations in rrl encoding 23S rRNA but were then attributed to the intrinsic production of the erm(41) 23S RNA methylase. Since strains of M. abscessus were recently distributed into subspecies and erm(41) sequevars, we investigated...
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