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Genotypic and phenotypic characterization of Mycobacterium tuberculosis resistance against fluoroquinolones in the northeast of Iran.
BMC infectious diseases - 1 Jun 2020
Sayadi Mahdieh, Zare Hosna, Jamedar Saeed Amel, Hashemy Seyed Isaac, Meshkat Zahra, Soleimanpour Saman, Hoffner Sven, Ghazvini Kiarash
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Fluoroquinolones are broad-spectrum antibiotics that are recommended, and increasingly important, for the treatment of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB). Resistance to fluoroquinolones is caused by mutations in the Quinolone Resistance Determining Region (QRDR) of gyrA and gyrB genes of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. In this study, we characterized the phenotypic and genotypic resistance to...
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