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Tuberculosis treatment failure associated with evolution of antibiotic resilience
8 Dec 2022
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The widespread use of antibiotics has placed bacterial pathogens under intense pressure to evolve new survival mechanisms. Genomic analysis of 51,229 Mycobacterium tuberculosis ( Mtb ) clinical isolates has identified an essential transcriptional regulator, Rv1830 , herein called resR for resilience regulator, as a frequent target of positive (adaptive) selection. resR mutants do not show canonical drug...
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