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Molecular Epidemiological Study of Pyrazinamide-Resistance in Clinical Isolates of Mycobacterium tuberculosis from South India

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State TB Training and Demonstration Centre, Govt. Hospital for Chest Diseases, Puducherry, India
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Departments of Microbiology, Vector Control Research Centre, Puducherry, India
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Virology Cell, NEERI, CSIR Complex, Tharamani, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
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Int. J. Mol. Sci. 2010, 11(7), 2670-2680; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms11072670
Received: 18 May 2010 / Accepted: 24 May 2010 / Published: 7 July 2010
(This article belongs to the Section Biochemistry)
Pyrazinamide (PZA) has been in use for almost 50 years as a first-line drug for short-course chemotherapy against Mycobacterium tuberculosis. In this study, PCR mediated automated DNA sequencing is used to check the prevalence of PZA resistance among treatment failure cases of pulmonary tuberculosis. Out of 50 clinical isolates examined, 39 had mutations in the pncA gene that encodes Pyrazinamidase, an enzyme required to activate PZA. Of these, 31 (79.5%) were localized to three regions of pncA. We found two isolates with hitherto unreported mutation at amino acid 26 (Ala→Gly) of pncA. View Full-Text
Keywords: PZA resistance; mycobacterium tuberculosis; pulmonary tuberculosis; South India; pncA mutation PZA resistance; mycobacterium tuberculosis; pulmonary tuberculosis; South India; pncA mutation
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Muthaiah, M.; Jagadeesan, S.; Ayalusamy, N.; Sreenivasan, M.; Prabhu, S.S.; Muthuraj, U.; Senthilkumar, K.; Veerappan, S. Molecular Epidemiological Study of Pyrazinamide-Resistance in Clinical Isolates of Mycobacterium tuberculosis from South India. Int. J. Mol. Sci. 2010, 11, 2670-2680. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms11072670

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Muthaiah M, Jagadeesan S, Ayalusamy N, Sreenivasan M, Prabhu SS, Muthuraj U, Senthilkumar K, Veerappan S. Molecular Epidemiological Study of Pyrazinamide-Resistance in Clinical Isolates of Mycobacterium tuberculosis from South India. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 2010; 11(7):2670-2680. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms11072670

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Muthaiah, Muthuraj, Sridharan Jagadeesan, Nisha Ayalusamy, Manupriya Sreenivasan, Sambamurthy Sangamesvara Prabhu, Usharani Muthuraj, Kamatchiyammal Senthilkumar, and Saroja Veerappan. 2010. "Molecular Epidemiological Study of Pyrazinamide-Resistance in Clinical Isolates of Mycobacterium tuberculosis from South India" International Journal of Molecular Sciences 11, no. 7: 2670-2680. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms11072670

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