title: Peptide nucleic acid-mediated competitive PCR clamping for detection of rifampin-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis.
abstract: Peptide nucleic acid-mediated competitive PCR clamping, which can selectively amplify mutant alleles, was developed to detect mutations in four codons (513, 516, 526, and 531) of the rpoB gene in Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains. This simple method successfully identified the mutations in all 40 of the M. tuberculosis strains tested.
authors.affiliation: Department of Microbiology, Kobe Institute of Health, 4-6 Minatojima-nakamachi, Chuo-ku, Kobe 650-0046, Japan. kx2t-iwmt@asahi-net.or.jp
authors.forename: Tomotada
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Iwamoto
authors.forename: Toshiaki
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Sonobe
mesh_terms: D000904:Antibiotics, Antitubercular / Q000494:pharmacology*; D003062:Codon; D017931:DNA Primers; D012321:DNA-Directed RNA Polymerases / Q000235:genetics; D024881:Drug Resistance, Bacterial; D008826:Microbial Sensitivity Tests; D009154:Mutation / Q000235:genetics; D009169:Mycobacterium tuberculosis / Q000187:drug effects* / Q000235:genetics*; D020135:Peptide Nucleic Acids / Q000235:genetics / Q000502:physiology*; D020133:Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction; D012293:Rifampin / Q000494:pharmacology*
chemical_list: D000904:Antibiotics, Antitubercular; D003062:Codon; D017931:DNA Primers; D020135:Peptide Nucleic Acids; D012321:DNA-Directed RNA Polymerases; C105078:RNA polymerase beta subunit; D012293:Rifampin