Improved Performance Predicting Clarithromycin Resistance in Mycobacterium abscessus on an Independent Data Set

Antimicrob Agents Chemother. 2019 Jul 25;63(8):e00400-19. doi: 10.1128/AAC.00400-19. Print 2019 Aug.

Samuel Lipworth^{1

2}, Natasha Hough³, Ruaridh Buchanan⁴, E Grace Smith⁵, Esther Robinson⁵, Eliza Alexander⁴, Tim Peto^{3

2}, Derrick Crook^{3

2}, Timothy Walker³

¹ Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom [email protected].
² NIHR Health Protection Research Unit in Healthcare Associated Infections and Antimicrobial Resistance at the University of Oxford in partnership with Public Health England, Oxford, United Kingdom.
³ Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom.
⁴ National Mycobacterium Reference Service-South, London, United Kingdom.
⁵ Public Health England Regional Mycobacterial Reference Laboratory, Birmingham Heartlands Hospital, Birmingham, United Kingdom.

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Keywords: Mycobacterium abscessus; macrolides; nontuberculous mycobacteria; whole-genome sequencing.

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