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SUBMITTER: Ushtanit A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC8532644 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Antibiotics (Basel, Switzerland) 20211013 10
<h4>Background</h4>Linezolid, bedaquiline, and newer fluoroquinolones are currently placed as priority Group A drugs for the treatment of drug-resistant tuberculosis. The number of reported linezolid-resistant clinical strains is still low, and the correlation of molecular determinants with phenotype is not perfect.<h4>Methods</h4>We determined the linezolid MICs for clinical isolates from the Moscow region and identified mutations in <i>rplC</i> and <i>rrl</i> genes.<h4>Results</h4>All 16 linez ...[more]