Practical guidance for clinical microbiology laboratories: mycobacteria

BA Forbes, GS Hall, MB Miller, SM Novak… - Clinical microbiology …, 2018 - Am Soc Microbiol
Mycobacteria are the causative organisms for diseases such as tuberculosis (TB), leprosy,
Buruli ulcer, and pulmonary nontuberculous mycobacterial disease, to name the most …

Targeted next-generation sequencing to diagnose drug-resistant tuberculosis: a systematic review and meta-analysis

TC Schwab, L Perrig, PC Göller… - The Lancet Infectious …, 2024 - thelancet.com
Background Targeted next-generation sequencing (NGS) can rapidly and simultaneously
detect mutations associated with resistance to tuberculosis drugs across multiple gene …

Prevalence and extent of heteroresistance by next generation sequencing of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis

DJ Operario, AF Koeppel, SD Turner, Y Bao… - PLoS …, 2017 - journals.plos.org
Amplicon-based Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) is an emerging method for
Mycobacterium tuberculosis drug susceptibility testing (DST) but has not been well …

The whole-genome sequencing in predicting Mycobacterium tuberculosis drug susceptibility and resistance in Papua, Indonesia

Y Maladan, H Krismawati, T Wahyuni, R Tanjung… - BMC genomics, 2021 - Springer
Background Tuberculosis is one of the deadliest disease caused by Mycobacterium
tuberculosis. Its treatment still becomes a burden for many countries including Indonesia …

Ultrasensitive Detection of Multidrug-Resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis Using SuperSelective Primer-Based Real-Time PCR Assays

A Narang, SAE Marras, N Kurepina… - International journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
The emergence of drug-resistant tuberculosis is a significant global health issue. The
presence of heteroresistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis is critical to developing fully drug …

Global status of phenotypic pyrazinamide resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis clinical isolates: an updated systematic review and meta-analysis

Z Wang, Z Tang, H Heidari, L Molaeipour… - Journal of …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Pyrazinamide (PZA) is an essential first-line tuberculosis drug for its unique mechanism of
action active against multidrug-resistant-TB (MDR-TB). Thus, the aim of updated meta …

Insights into the mechanisms of the pyrazinamide resistance of three pyrazinamidase mutants N11K, P69T, and D126N

M Junaid, MT Khan, SI Malik… - Journal of chemical …, 2018 - ACS Publications
In an effort to discover the mechanism of resistance offered by Mycobacterium tuberculosis
(Mtb) toward the pyrazinamide (PZA) drug, an extensive molecular dynamics strategy was …

Mutations Associated with Pyrazinamide Resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis: A Review and Update

A Rajendran, K Palaniyandi - Current Microbiology, 2022 - Springer
Pyrazinamide (PZA) has remained a keystone of tuberculosis (TB) therapy, and it possesses
high imperative sterilizing action that can facilitate reduction in the present chemotherapy …

Application of next-generation sequencing to detect variants of drug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis: genotype–phenotype correlation

DH Ko, EJ Lee, SK Lee, HS Kim, SY Shin… - Annals of Clinical …, 2019 - Springer
Abstract Background Drug resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) is a major health
issue worldwide. Recently, next-generation sequencing (NGS) technology has begun to be …

Detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis pncA Mutations by the Nipro Genoscholar PZA-TB II Assay Compared to Conventional Sequencing

MJ Willby, M Wijkander, J Havumaki… - Antimicrobial agents …, 2018 - Am Soc Microbiol
Pyrazinamide (PZA) is a standard component of first-line treatment regimens for
Mycobacterium tuberculosis and is included in treatment regimens for drug-resistant M …