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. 2019 Oct 18;9:14996. doi: 10.1038/s41598-019-51562-6

Table 2.

High frequency drug resistance mutations. Mutations have been ordered by frequency.

Drug Gene Mutation Resistant* (%) Global frequency resistant (%)**
Isoniazid katG Ser315Thr 61/68 (89.7) 4071/5423 (75.1)
Rifampicin rpoB Ser450Leu 56/76 (73.7) 2975/4618 (64.4)
Fluoroquinolones gyrA Asp94Gly 26/51 (51.0) 153/527 (29.0)
Ethambutol embB Met306Ile 20/61 (32.8) 567/2662 (21.3)
Ethambutol embB Met306Val 15/61 (24.6) 840/2662 (31.6)
Streptomycin rpsL Lys43Arg 12/42 (28.6) 649/1408 (46.1)
Streptomycin rrs r.514a > c 12/42 (28.6) 128/1408 (9.1)
Ethambutol embB Met306Leu 10/61 (16.4) 34/2662 (1.3)
Fluoroquinolones gyrA Asp94Ala 9/51 (17.7) 62/527 (11.8)
Ethionamide fabG1 −15C > T 7/15 (46.7) 190/347 (54.8)
Isoniazid fabG1 −15C > T 7/68 (10.3) 877/5423 (16.2)
Rifampicin rpoC Ile491Thr 7/76 (9.2) 91/4618 (2.0)
Streptomycin gid c.102_102del 6/42 (14.3) 12/1408 (0.9)
Ethambutol embB Gln497Arg 5/61 (8.2) 207/2662 (7.8)
Fluoroquinolones gyrA Ser91Pro 5/51 (9.8) 40/527 (7.6)
Pyrazinamide pncA −11A > G 4/43 (9.3) 77/1946 (4.0)
Fluoroquinolones gyrA Ala90Val 4/51 (7.8) 152/527 (28.8)
Rifampicin rpoB Asp435Val 4/76 (5.3) 296/4618 (6.4)
Ethambutol embB Gly406Ala 4/61 (6.6) 318/2662 (12.0)
Pyrazinamide pncA Val180Phe 4/43 (9.3) 4/1946 (0.2)
Ethambutol embA −12C > T 3/61 (4.9) 115/2662 (4.3)
Fluoroquinolones gyrA Asp94Asn 3/51 (5.9) 22/527 (4.2)
Ethambutol embB Gln497Lys 3/61 (4.9) 20/2662 (0.8)
Ethambutol embB Gly406Asp 3/61 (4.9) 75/2662 (2.8)
Ethambutol embB Gly406Ser 3/61 (4.9) 37/2662 (1.4)
Rifampicin rpoB His445Tyr 3/76 (4.0) 230/4618 (5.0)
Pyrazinamide pncA His71Arg 3/43 (7.0) 2/1946 (0.1)
Streptomycin rpsL Lys88Arg 3/42 (7.1) 104/1408 (7.4)
Amikacin rrs 1401a > g 3/3 (100) 291/349 (83.4)
Capreomycin rrs 1401a > g 3/3 (100) 307/404 (76.0)
Kanamycin rrs 1401a > g 3/5 (60.0) 531/669 (79.4)
Streptomycin rrs 517c > t 3/42 (7.1) 57/1408 (4.1)

*The number of strains in this study predicted to be resistant by TB-Profiler software; **the number of strains in the global dataset (N > 18k)14 predicted to be resistant by TB-Profiler.