The role of epistasis in amikacin, kanamycin, bedaquiline, and clofazimine resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex
Roger Vargas, Luca Freschi, Andrea Spitaleri, Sabira Tahseen, Ivan Barilar, Stefan Niemann, Paolo Miotto, Daniela María Cirillo, Claudio Umberto Köser, Maha Reda Farhat
The paper demonstrates epistatic interactions in Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex that can reverse antibiotic resistance, specifically showing that eis promoter mutations cannot confer resistance if paired with LoF mutations in the eis coding region.
Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy · Aug 30, 2021Peer-reviewedGenomics