… It could be claimed that this is simply due to the fact that PZA resistance is rapidly generated
… ’ reveals a significant cost to PZA resistance which is difficult for the bacterium to circumvent. …

… In areas where TB is less prevalent or where TB is prevalent … One consequence is that
molecular typing and, to some extent… a strain is identified as Beijing if the RD105 region is deleted …

… (CC) is effectively that of an ECOFF (ie it is set based on MIC … ) even though the CC is
actually used as a CB S/R (ie pWT … is moxifloxacin (table 1), for which the CC is used as a CB S …

… BzATP is able to induce … CD21 is also susceptible to BzATP-induced shedding on peripheral
B cells. In addition, using receptor inhibitiors, we show that shedding of CD21 and CD62L is …

… As PZA is part of current and planned MDR-TB treatment regimens this is alarming and …
Based on our typing and sequence analysis results we conclude that PZA resistance is the result …

Background Kazakhstan remains a high-burden TB prevalence country with a concomitent
high-burden of multi-drug resistant tuberculosis. For this reason, we performed an in depth …

… is especially interesting in areas where there is a high prevalence of multidrug resistant TB
(MDR-TB) and resistance is … , especially lineage identification, is almost always performed …

BACKGROUND: Little is known about drug-resistant tuberculosis (TB) and its transmission
in Papua, which has one of the highest rates of TB in Indonesia.DESIGN: We examined …

… , is characterized by typical rounding and enlargement of infected cells 6 . In fact, the latter
aspect is so characteristic that the virus received its name based on this property. HCMV is the …

Mycobacterium tuberculosis genotype distribution is different between West and Central
Indonesia, but there are no data on the most Eastern part, Papua. We aimed to identify the …