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Title: | Molecular analysis of isoniazid and rifampin resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates recovered from Barcelona. |
Author: | Coll, Pere Aragón, Lina Marcela Alcaide Fernández de Vega, Fernando Espasa, Mateo Garrigó, Montserrat González Martín, Julián Manterola, Jose M. Orús, Pilar Salvadó, Margarita |
Keywords: | Mycobacterium tuberculosis Tuberculosi Medicaments antituberculosos Resistència als medicaments Genètica molecular Mycobacterium tuberculosis Tuberculosis Antitubercular agents Drug resistance Molecular genetics |
Issue Date: | 23-May-2005 |
Publisher: | Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. |
Abstract: | We studied the presence of mutations in the whole katG gene and specific regions of the oxyR-ahpC and mabA-inhA regulatory region in 61 Mycobacterium tuberculosis isoniazid-resistant isolates. An 81-bp region of the rpoB gene was also sequenced in 17 rifampin-resistant strains. Alterations in the katG gene were detected in 55% of the isolates. Mutation in codon 315 was the most prevalent (32%). Strains showed a high level of resistance, and most maintained a substantial catalase-peroxidase activity. Three strains with an isoniazid MIC of ≥32 µg/ml lacked catalase-peroxidase activity. Two of them had deletions in the catalytic domain of the KatG protein. One strain with deletion and three strains with mutations in the C-terminal domain showed low-level resistance and conserved the catalase-peroxidase activity. Mutations in the mabA-inhA regulatory region were identified in 32% of the isolates. All had low-level resistance, and the vast majority conserved catalase-peroxidase activity. Seventeen percent of the isoniazid-resistant isolates had no detectable alterations at the studied loci. Resistance to rifampin was associated with mutations in the 81-bp of the rpoB gene in all cases. IS6110 analysis indicated that recent transmission contributed substantially to the emergence of isoniazid- resistant tuberculosis in Barcelona through short transmission chains. A rapid genotypic assay, including the 315-katG codon and the -15 nucleotide of the mabA-inhA regulatory region, may cover 62% of isoniazid- resistant strains in Barcelona. In contrast, the targeting of the 81-bp region of rpoB would detect all our rifampin-resistant isolates. |
Note: | Reproducció del document publicat a: http://dx.doi.org/10.1089/mdr.2005.11.107 |
It is part of: | Microbial Drug Resistance, 2005, vol. 11, num. 2, p. 107-114 |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2445/101000 |
Related resource: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1089/mdr.2005.11.107 |
ISSN: | 1076-6294 |
Appears in Collections: | Articles publicats en revistes (Fonaments Clínics) |
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