Article
Identification of mutations in 23S rRNA gene of clarithromycin-resistant Mycobacterium intracellulare.
Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy - 1 Feb 1994
Meier A, Kirschner P, Springer B, Steingrube V A, Brown B A, Wallace R J, Böttger E C
Abstract excerpt
Clarithromycin is a potent macrolide that has been used for treating infections with nontuberculous mycobacteria. Pairs of susceptible and resistant Mycobacterium intracellulare strains were obtained from patients with chronic pulmonary M. intracellulare infections undergoing monotherapy with cla...
Topics
- Base Sequence
- Clarithromycin
- Drug Resistance, Microbial
- Genes, Bacterial
- Humans
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Mutation
- Mycobacterium avium Complex
- Nucleic Acid Conformation
- RNA, Ribosomal, 23S
