Unraveling the mechanisms of intrinsic drug resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis

NC Poulton, JM Rock - Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Tuberculosis (TB) is among the most difficult infections to treat, requiring several months of
multidrug therapy to produce a durable cure. The reasons necessitating long treatment times …

CRISPRi chemical genetics and comparative genomics identify genes mediating drug potency in Mycobacterium tuberculosis

S Li, NC Poulton, JS Chang, ZA Azadian… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) infection is notoriously difficult to treat. Treatment efficacy
is limited by Mtb's intrinsic drug resistance, as well as its ability to evolve acquired resistance …

Transcontinental spread and evolution of Mycobacterium tuberculosis W148 European/Russian clade toward extensively drug resistant tuberculosis

M Merker, JP Rasigade, M Barbier, H Cox… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Transmission-driven multi-/extensively drug resistant (M/XDR) tuberculosis (TB) is the
largest single contributor to human mortality due to antimicrobial resistance. A few major …

Mycobacterium tuberculosis functional genetic diversity, altered drug sensitivity, and precision medicine

S Stanley, Q Liu, SM Fortune - Frontiers in Cellular and Infection …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
In the face of the unrelenting global burden of tuberculosis (TB), antibiotics remain our most
effective tools to save lives and control the spread of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) …

[图书][B] Catalogue of mutations in Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex and their association with drug resistance

World Health Organization - 2023 - books.google.com
Page 1 Catalogue of mutations in Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex and their
association with drug resistance Second edition Page 2 Page 3 Catalogue of mutations in …

Tuberculosis treatment failure associated with evolution of antibiotic resilience

Q Liu, J Zhu, CL Dulberger, S Stanley, S Wilson… - Science, 2022 - science.org
The widespread use of antibiotics has placed bacterial pathogens under intense pressure to
evolve new survival mechanisms. Genomic analysis of 51,229 Mycobacterium tuberculosis …

Adaptation and compensation in a bacterial gene regulatory network evolving under antibiotic selection

V Patel, N Matange - Elife, 2021 - elifesciences.org
Gene regulatory networks allow organisms to generate coordinated responses to
environmental challenges. In bacteria, regulatory networks are re-wired and re-purposed …

Loss of RNase J leads to multi-drug tolerance and accumulation of highly structured mRNA fragments in Mycobacterium tuberculosis

MC Martini, ND Hicks, J Xiao, MN Alonso… - PLoS …, 2022 - journals.plos.org
Despite the existence of well-characterized, canonical mutations that confer high-level drug
resistance to Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb), there is evidence that drug resistance …

The evolving biology of Mycobacterium tuberculosis drug resistance

RM Jones, KN Adams, HE Eldesouky… - Frontiers in cellular and …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Tuberculosis, caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) is an ancient disease that has
remained a leading cause of infectious death. Mtb has evolved drug resistance to every …

Genome-Wide Association Studies (GWAS) Approaches for the Detection of Genetic Variants Associated with Antibiotic Resistance: A Systematic Review

J Mosquera-Rendón, CX Moreno-Herrera, J Robledo… - Microorganisms, 2023 - mdpi.com
Antibiotic resistance is a significant threat to public health worldwide. Genome-wide
association studies (GWAS) have emerged as a powerful tool to identify genetic variants …