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Paromomycin resistance in Leishmania tropica: lack of correlation with mutation in the small subunit ribosomal RNA gene.
The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene - 1 Dec 1994
Fong D, Chan M M, Rodriguez R, Gately L J, Berman J D, Grogl M
Abstract excerpt
The aminoglycoside antibiotic paromomycin is a potentially useful anti-leishmanial chemotherapeutic agent. Resistance to this antibiotic was studied using Leishmania tropica. Promastigotes resistant to 210 micrograms/ml of paromomycin were selected by exposing them to gradual increments of this drug. Previous work in Escherichia coli, Tetrahymena, and yeast mitochondrial mutants has demonstrated mutations in the...
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