Discordance in Phenotypic and Genotypic Susceptibility Testing for Streptomycin Due to Nonsynonymous/Nonsense/Deletion Frame-Shift Mutations in gidB among Clinical Mycobacterium tuberculosis Isolates in Kuwait.

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OBJECTIVE: Increasing reports of resistance to newer antituberculosis drugs have prompted the search for other alternative drugs. Streptomycin (STR) could be used for the treatment of drug-resistant tuberculosis if susceptibility of Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolate to STR could be accurately detected. We performed phenotypic and genotypic drug susceptibility testing (DST) of 118 M. tuberculosis isolates for...

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