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Comment
. 2013 Jul;45(7):720-1.
doi: 10.1038/ng.2675.

Biological variability and the emergence of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis

Tawanda Gumbo
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Biological variability and the emergence of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis

Tawanda Gumbo. Nat Genet. 2013 Jul.

Abstract

A new study demonstrates that bacterial mutation rates associated with the Mycobacterium tuberculosis lineage most commonly linked to multidrug-resistant tuberculosis are multifold higher than shown in previous studies. This discovery, when considered together with recent findings on pharmacokinetic variability in patients, leads to new models of how multidrug-resistant tuberculosis arises, with direct therapeutic implications.

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