Diverse Clinical Isolates of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Develop Macrophage-Induced Rifampin Tolerance.
Kristin N Adams,
Amit Kumar Verma,
Radha Gopalaswamy,
Harresh Adikesavalu,
Dinesh Kumar Singhal,
Srikanth Tripathy,
Uma Devi Ranganathan,
David R Sherman,
Kevin B Urdahl,
Lalita Ramakrishnan,
Rafael E Hernandez
Jan 28, 2019
The Mycobacterium tuberculosis lineage 4 strains CDC1551 and H37Rv develop tolerance to multiple antibiotics upon macrophage residence. To determine whether macrophage-induced tolerance is a general feature of clinical M....