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Streptomycin resistance in mycobacteria.
Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy - 1 Feb 1994
Honoré N, Cole S T
Abstract excerpt
Streptomycin, the first antibiotic used in tuberculosis control programs, perturbs protein synthesis at the ribosome level. It is shown here that streptomycin resistance in some clinical isolates of Mycobacterium tuberculosis is associated either with missense mutations in the rpsL gene, which encodes ribosomal protein S12, or with base substitutions at position 904 in the 16S rRNA. The primary structure of the...
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