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. 2017 Jan 25;55(2):457–469. doi: 10.1128/JCM.02116-16

TABLE 4.

Fraction of drug resistance acquired through person-to-person transmission versus de novo evolution of resistance within individual patients for each druga

Drug No. of acquisitions Estimated % de novo Estimated % transmission
First-line drugs
    Isoniazid 7 10 90
    Rifampin 9 13 87
    Ethambutol 15 22 78
    Pyrazinamide 9 47 53
Second-line drugs
    Amikacin 10 26 74
    Ethionamide 9 39 61
    Ofloxacin 27 54 46
Other drugs
    Streptomycin 10 13 87
a

Parsimony was used to estimate the number of times genotypic resistance was gained in isolates with AST results. This number was divided by the total number of phenotypically resistant isolates to estimate the fraction of resistance to each drug acquired through de novo evolution, while the remaining fraction was assigned to acquisition from person-to-person transmission.