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Clinical Whole Genome Sequencing for Clarithromycin and Amikacin Resistance Prediction and Subspecies Identification of Mycobacterium abscessus.
The Journal of molecular diagnostics : JMD - 1 Nov 2021
Realegeno Susan, Mirasol Ruel, Garner Omai B, Yang Shangxin
Abstract excerpt
Mycobacterium abscessus infections are an emerging health care concern in patients with chronic pulmonary diseases, leading to high morbidity and mortality. One major challenge is resistance to clarithromycin, a cornerstone antibiotic with high efficacy. Therefore, treatment is primarily guided by phenotypic susceptibility results of clarithromycin, which requires extended incubation to assess for inducible...
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