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Chinese Journal of Antituberculosis ›› 2013, Vol. 35 ›› Issue (8): 615-620.

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Advances in reseach on Mycobacterium tuberculosis drug resistance mechanism

DING Hai-rong, QIN Chuan, ZHAN Ling-jun   

  1. Key Laboratory of Human Diseases Comparative Medicine, Ministry of Health; Institute of Medical Laboratory Animal Science, Chinese Academy of Medical Science; Peking Union Medical College Key Laboratory of Human Diseases Animal Models, State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Beijing 100021,China
  • Received:2013-03-26 Online:2013-08-10 Published:2013-08-04
  • Contact: ZHAN Ling-jun E-mail:zhanlj@cnilas.org

Abstract: Tuberculosis was one of most serious infectious diseases that were harmful to human health. Antibiotics was effective treatment against this bacterium. But the emergency of multi- and extensively drug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis(Mtb) were occurred frequently when the use of antibiotics was unproper. Drugresistant phenotype was due to mutations in drug resistant related genes, this paper will state the progress in mechanism study of drug resistant Mtb, which will guide the diagnosis and treatment of drug resistant Mtb.

Key words: Antitubercular agents, Antibiotics, antitubercular, Drug resistance, bacterial