Cryptic Resistance Mutations Associated With Misdiagnoses of Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis.

ABSTRACT: Understanding why some multidrug-resistant tuberculosis cases are not detected by rapid phenotypic and genotypic routine clinical tests is essential to improve diagnostic assays and advance toward personalized tuberculosis treatment. Here, we combine whole-genome sequencing with single-colony phenotyping to identify a multidrug-resistant strain that had infected a patient for 9 years. Our investigation revealed the failure of rapid testing and genome-based prediction tools to identify the multidrug-resistant strain. The false-negative findings were caused by uncommon rifampicin and isoniazid resistance mutations. Although whole-genome sequencing data helped to personalize treatment, the patient developed extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis, highlighting the importance of coupling new d

SUBMITTER: Cancino-Munoz I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6581888 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature