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Acquired resistance in Mycobacterium avium complex strains isolated from AIDS patients and beige mice during treatment with clarithromycin.
The Journal of antimicrobial chemotherapy - 1 Jul 1995
Doucet-Populaire F, Truffot-Pernot C, Grosset J, Jarlier V
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Clarithromycin has been reported to select clarithromycin resistant mutants of Mycobacterium avium complex (MAC) during treatment with clarithromycin in AIDS patients and beige mice. We selected resistant mutants in vitro at a frequency of 5 x 10(-9). Clarithromycin resistant strains of MAC isolated in AIDS patients and beige mice as well as derivatives selected in vitro had a unique pattern of acquired...
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