@article{24899, keywords = {Anti-Bacterial Agents, Dapsone, DNA, Bacterial, Drug Resistance, Bacterial, Genes, Bacterial, Humans, leprosy, Mycobacterium leprae, polymerase chain reaction, Rifampin, Sequence Analysis, DNA, United States}, author = {Williams DL and Lewis C and Sandoval FG and Robbins N and Keas S and Gillis T and Scollard D}, title = {Drug resistance in patients with leprosy in the United States.}, abstract = {

Molecular drug susceptibility testing was performed on 39 US patients with leprosy. Of these, 2 had dapsone-resistant Mycobacterium leprae and 1 of these patients also had rifampin-resistant M. leprae. Even though antileprosy drug resistance occurs in this leprosy population, resistance does not appear to be a major problem.

}, year = {2014}, journal = {Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America}, volume = {58}, pages = {72-3}, month = {2014 Jan}, issn = {1537-6591}, url = {https://academic.oup.com/cid/article/58/1/72/372994}, doi = {10.1093/cid/cit628}, language = {eng}, }