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Genomic markers of drug resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis populations with minority variants.
Journal of clinical microbiology - 24 Oct 2023
Zhang Xiaomei, Lam Connie, Martinez Elena, Sim Eby, Crighton Taryn, Marais Ben J, Sintchenko Vitali
Abstract excerpt
Minority variants of Mycobacterium tuberculosis harboring mutations conferring resistance can become dominant populations during tuberculosis (TB) treatment, leading to treatment failure. Our understanding of drug-resistant within-host subpopulations and the frequency of resistance-conferring mutations in minority variants remains limited. M. tuberculosis sequences recovered from liquid cultures of...
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