Beschreibung:
<jats:title>ABSTRACT</jats:title>
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We analyzed 159
<jats:italic>Mycobacterium tuberculosis</jats:italic>
isolates (101 ethambutol [EMB]-resistant strains, 33 multidrug-resistant but not EMB-resistant strains, and 25 fully susceptible strains) for the presence of mutations in
<jats:italic>embB</jats:italic>
codon 306 (
<jats:italic>embB</jats:italic>
306). Mutations were detected only in EMB-resistant strains (
<jats:italic>n</jats:italic>
= 69; 68%), thus confirming the significance of
<jats:italic>embB</jats:italic>
306 mutations for the prediction of resistance to EMB.
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