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RESPIROLOGY
Volume 23, Issue 12, Pages 1098-1113Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/resp.13393
Keywords
antimicrobial susceptibility testing; drug resistance; tuberculosis; molecular mechanisms
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Tuberculosis (TB) caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) is the deadliest infectious disease and the associated global threat has worsened with the emergence of drug resistance, in particular multidrug-resistant TB (MDR-TB) and extensively drug-resistant TB (XDR-TB). Although the World Health Organization (WHO) End-TB Strategy advocates for universal access to antimicrobial susceptibility testing, this is not widely available and/or it is still underused. The majority of drug resistance in clinical MTB strains is attributed to chromosomal mutations. Resistance-related mutations could also exert certain fitness cost to the drug-resistant MTB strains and growth fitness could be restored by the presence of compensatory mutations. Understanding these underlying mechanisms could provide an important insight into TB pathogenesis and predict the future trend of MDR-TB global pandemic. This review covers the mechanisms of resistance in MTB and provides a comprehensive overview of current phenotypic and molecular approaches for drug susceptibility testing, with particular attention to the methods endorsed and recommended by the WHO.
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