Article
A highly rifampicin resistant <i>Mycobacterium tuberculosis</i> strain emerging in Southern Brazil
2020-09-03
Abstract excerpt
<h4>ABSTRACT</h4> Here we described phenotypical, molecular and epidemiological features of a highly rifampicin-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis strain emerging in Southern Brazil, that carries an uncommon insertion of 12 nucleotides at the codon 435 in the rpoB gene. Employing a whole-genome sequencing-based study on drug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains, we identified this emergent strain in...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 8efa47f5-6795-5db6-8803-f5c07b0ff1c2
- DOI
- 10.1101/2020.09.03.282194
