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ArticleFrontiers in microbiology2025

Néstor Alvarado-Peña, Marcela Muñoz Torrico, Luis Narváez-Díaz, Paulina M Mejía-Ponce, Eduardo Becerril Vargas, Joaquín Zúñiga, Raquel Muñiz-Salazar, Rafael Laniado-Laborín, Cuauhtémoc Licona-Cassani, Xavier Soberón and 1 more

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Article in Frontiers in microbiology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

  1. CRISPRi-mediated silencing of the ABC transporterFrontiers in microbiology · 2026
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

11 authors.

Néstor Alvarado-PeñaClínica de Tuberculosis, Instituto Nacional de Enfermedades Respiratorias "Ismael Cosío Villegas", Mexico City, Mexico.
Marcela Muñoz TorricoClínica de Tuberculosis, Instituto Nacional de Enfermedades Respiratorias "Ismael Cosío Villegas", Mexico City, Mexico.
Luis Narváez-DíazLaboratorio de Microbiología, Instituto Nacional de Enfermedades Respiratorias (INER), Mexico City, Mexico.
Paulina M Mejía-PonceEscuela de Ingeniería y Ciencias, Tecnológico de Monterrey, Monterrey, Mexico.
Eduardo Becerril VargasLaboratorio de Microbiología, Instituto Nacional de Enfermedades Respiratorias (INER), Mexico City, Mexico.
Joaquín ZúñigaLaboratorio de Inmunobiología y Genética, Instituto Nacional de Enfermedades Respiratorias "Ismael Cosío Villegas" and Tecnológico de Monterrey, Escuela de Medicina y Ciencias de la Salud, Mexico City, Mexico.
Raquel Muñiz-SalazarEscuela de Ciencias de la Salud, Universidad Autónoma de Baja California, Ensenada, Mexico.
Rafael Laniado-LaborínFacultad de Medicina, Universidad Autónoma de Baja California, Tijuana, Mexico.
Cuauhtémoc Licona-CassaniEscuela de Ingeniería y Ciencias, Tecnológico de Monterrey, Monterrey, Mexico.
Xavier SoberónDepartamento de Ingeniería Celular y Biocatálisis, Instituto de Biotecnología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Cuernavaca, Mexico.
Eugenia Silva-HerzogLaboratorio de Vinculación Científica, Facultad de Medicina-Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico-Instituto Nacional de Medicina Genómica (UNAM-INMEGEN), Mexico City, Mexico.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Tuberculosis (TB) remains a persistent global public health challenge, with the rise of drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB) complicating all the disease control efforts. The World Health Organization (WHO) has advocated for molecular diagnostic techniques, including whole-genome sequencing (WGS), to enhance TB diagnosis and treatment strategies. In this study, we performed WGS analysis on 49 pulmonary tuberculosis isolates from Mexican patients to identify mutations conferring resistance to 11 key antimicrobial agents: four first-line drugs (isoniazid, rifampicin, ethambutol, and pyrazinamide) and 7 second line drugs (fluoroquinolones, ethionamide/prothionamide, amikacin, kanamycin, capreomycin, streptomycin, and bedaquiline). We identified 89 novel variants: 48 in genes previously associated with drug resistance and 41 in genes not previously linked to resistance mechanisms, including potential novel mutations associated with delamanid resistance. Additionally, we detected 31 mutations across three efflux pump superfamilies (ABC, RND, and MFS); all of these variants warrant further investigation regarding their contribution to antibiotic resistance. This analysis represents approximately 10% of Mexico's national variant registry, providing substantial insight into the molecular epidemiology of drug-resistant tuberculosis within the country. The identification of new resistance-associated variants (RAV) from clinical isolates underrepresented in global databases, contributes to develop improved diagnostic tools, optimize treatment regimens, and probably to elucidate antibiotic resistance mechanisms. Specifically, the identification of RAVs for new drugs like bedaquiline, pretomanid, delamanid, and linezolid, which are central to the most recent schemes of treatment (BPaLM, BPaL, BDLLfxC, BLMZ), is key to the improvement of patient outcomes and preventing the emergence of resistance to these critical therapeutic options.

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drug-resistant tuberculosisefflux pumpsMycobacterium tuberculosis complexresistance-associated variantstuberculosiswhole genome sequencing

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PMID41170421
PMCPMC12568502

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