Acquired resistance of Mycobacterium tuberculosis to bedaquiline.

Bedaquiline (BDQ), an ATP synthase inhibitor, is the first drug to be approved for treatment of multi-drug resistant tuberculosis in decades. In vitro resistance to BDQ was previously shown to be due to target-based mutations. Here we report that non-target based resistance to BDQ, and cross-resista...

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Main Authors: Koen Andries, Cristina Villellas, Nele Coeck, Kim Thys, Tom Gevers, Luc Vranckx, Nacer Lounis, Bouke C de Jong, Anil Koul
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4092087?pdf=render