ArticleJournal of clinical microbiology2023
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Article in Journal of clinical microbiology, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.
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2 citing papers in PubMed, 2 citations in OpenAlex.
- Detection of heteroresistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis using nanopore-based amplicon sequencing and adaptive sampling.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Comprehensive evaluation of the MeltPro MTB/PZA assay for prediction of pyrazinamide resistance in multidrug-resistant tuberculosis.Microbiology spectrum · 2025Article
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13 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
Tuberculosis (TB), caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis, is one of the 10 leading killer diseases in the world. At least one-quarter of the population has been infected, and there are 1.3 million deaths annually. The emergence of multidrug-resistant (MDR) and extensively drug-resistant (XDR) strains challenges TB treatments. One of the drugs widely used in first- and second-line regimens is pyrazinamide (PZA). Statistically, 50% of MDR and 90% of XDR clinical strains are resistant to PZA, and recent studies have shown that its use in patients with PZA-resistant strains is associated with higher mortality rates. Therefore, the is an urgent need for the development of an accurate and efficient PZA susceptibility assay. PZA crosses the M. tuberculosis membrane and is hydrolyzed to its active form, pyrazinoic acid (POA), by a nicotinamidase encoded by the
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