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Molecular analysis of kanamycin and viomycin resistance in Mycobacterium smegmatis by use of the conjugation system.
Journal of bacteriology - 1 Aug 1997
Taniguchi H, Chang B, Abe C, Nikaido Y, Mizuguchi Y, Yoshida S I
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We examined the molecular mechanisms of resistance to kanamycin and viomycin in Mycobacterium smegmatis. All of the M. smegmatis strains with high-level kanamycin resistance had a nucleotide substitution from A to G at position 1389 of the 16S rRNA gene (rrs). This position is equivalent to position 1408 of Escherichia coli, and mutation at this position is known to cause aminoglycoside resistance. Mutations from...
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