• MDR M. tuberculosis outbreak clone in Eswatini missed by Xpert has elevated bedaquiline resistance dated to the pre-treatment era 

      Beckert, Patrick; Sanchez-Padilla, Elisabeth; Merker, Matthias; Dreyer, Viola; Kohl, Thomas A.; Utpatel, Christian; Koser, Claudio U.; Barilar, Ivan; Ismail, Nazir; Omar, Shaheed V.; Klopper, Marisa; Warren, Robin M.; Hoffmann, Harald; Maphalala, Gugu; Ardizzoni, Elisa; De Jong, Bouke C.; Kerschberger, Bernhard; Schramm, Birgit; Andres, Sonke; Kranzer, Katharina; Maurer, Florian P.; Bonnet, Maryline; Niemann, Stefan (BMC, 2020-11-25)
      Background: Multidrug-resistant (MDR) Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex strains not detected by commercial molecular drug susceptibility testing (mDST) assays due to the RpoB I491F resistance mutation are threatening ...