Department of Microbiology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado 80523, USA.
Antimicrob Agents Chemother. 2011 Nov;55(11):5384-7. doi: 10.1128/AAC.05236-11. Epub 2011 Aug 22.
Drug resistance surveillance identified six untreated leprosy patients in the Philippines with Mycobacterium leprae folP1 mutations which confer dapsone resistance. Five patients share a village of residence; four who carried the mutation, Thr53Val, were also linked by M. leprae variable-number tandem repeat (VNTR) strain types. In India, folP1 mutations were detected in two relapse patients with a history of dapsone treatment. Mutations were not found in the rifampin target gene rpoB. These findings indicate that dapsone resistance is being transmitted.
耐药性监测在菲律宾发现了 6 例未经治疗的麻风病患者,他们的麻风分枝杆菌 folP1 突变可导致对氨苯砜的耐药性。5 名患者居住在同一个村庄;携带突变体 Thr53Val 的 4 人还与麻风分枝杆菌可变数目串联重复(VNTR)菌株类型相关。在印度,两名有氨苯砜治疗史的复发患者中检测到 folP1 突变。利福平靶基因 rpoB 中未发现突变。这些发现表明氨苯砜耐药性正在传播。