Identification of mutations related to streptomycin resistance in clinical isolates of Mycobacterium tuberculosis and possible involvement of efflux mechanism.

ABSTRACT: The MIC for streptomycin in the presence of efflux pump (EP) inhibitors and the sequencing of rpsL, rrs, and gidB genes provided evidence for the possible participation of EP in low-level streptomycin (STR) resistance of some isolates without mutations. Mutation in the gidB gene and an EP could act synergistically to confer low STR resistance.

SUBMITTER: Spies FS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2493096 | biostudies-literature | 2008 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature