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. 2014 Jun;20(6):1060–1062. doi: 10.3201/eid2006.130700

Table. Gene mutations of 214 drug-resistant tubercle bacilli, Zhejiang Province, China, 2011–2012.

Drug
Mutant points
Mutant times
Mutant times for single site, no. (%)*
Total no. mutant times of sites related to drug resistance
Isoniazid inhA-15 (C→T) 32 (18.6) 172†

katG315 (G→C), (G→A)
140 (81.4)

Rifampin rpoB511 (T→C) 10 (7.1) 140‡
rpoB513 (A→C) 2 (1.4)
rpoB516 (A→T), (A→G), (G→T) 19 (13.6)
rpoB526 (A→G), (A→T), (C→G), (C→T) 21 (15)
rpoB531 (C→G), (C→T) 84 (60.0)
rpoB533 (T→C) 4 (2.9)

*No. mutant times for single site/total no. mutant times of sites related to drug resistance.
†A strain simultaneously had katG315 (G→C) and inhA-15 (C→T).
‡Five strains had the double mutation of rpoB.