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SUBMITTER: Osborne CS
PROVIDER: S-EPMC1479141 | biostudies-literature | 2006 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy 20060601 6
We have characterized a new clinical strain of Trichophyton rubrum highly resistant to terbinafine but exhibiting normal susceptibility to drugs with other mechanisms of action. Resistance to terbinafine in this strain is caused by a missense mutation in the squalene epoxidase gene leading to the amino acid substitution F397L. ...[more]