| Literature DB >> 24612452 |
P Singh1, A Benjak, S Carat, M Kai, P Busso, C Avanzi, A Paniz-Mondolfi, C Peter, K Harshman, J Rougemont, M Matsuoka, S T Cole.
Abstract
Genotyping and molecular characterization of drug resistance mechanisms in Mycobacterium leprae enables disease transmission and drug resistance trends to be monitored. In the present study, we performed genome-wide analysis of Airaku-3, a multidrug-resistant strain with an unknown mechanism of resistance to rifampicin. We identified 12 unique non-synonymous single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) including two in the transporter-encoding ctpC and ctpI genes. In addition, two SNPs were found that improve the resolution of SNP-based genotyping, particularly for Venezuelan and South East Asian strains of M. leprae.Entities:
Keywords: Leprosy; Mycobacterium leprae; molecular epidemiology; rifampicin-resistance; single nucleotide polymorphism
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Year: 2014 PMID: 24612452 DOI: 10.1111/1469-0691.12609
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Clin Microbiol Infect ISSN: 1198-743X Impact factor: 8.067