Comparative Evaluation of Sloppy Molecular Beacon and Dual-Labeled Probe Melting Temperature Assays to Identify Mutations in Mycobacterium tuberculosis Resulting in Rifampin, Fluoroquinolone and Aminoglycoside Resistance

• Sandy S. Roh ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Sandy S. Roh, Laura E. Smith

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, New Jersey Medical School, Rutgers University, Newark, New Jersey, United States of America

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• Laura E. Smith ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Sandy S. Roh, Laura E. Smith

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, New Jersey Medical School, Rutgers University, Newark, New Jersey, United States of America

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• Jong Seok Lee,

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, International Tuberculosis Research Center, Changwon, Gyeongsang, Republic of Korea

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• Laura E. Via,

  Affiliation Tuberculosis Research Section, LCID, NIAID, NIH, Bethesda, MD, United States of America

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• Clifton E. Barry III,

  Affiliation Tuberculosis Research Section, LCID, NIAID, NIH, Bethesda, MD, United States of America

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• David Alland,

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, New Jersey Medical School, Rutgers University, Newark, New Jersey, United States of America

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• Soumitesh Chakravorty

  * E-mail: chakraso@njms.rutgers.edu

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, New Jersey Medical School, Rutgers University, Newark, New Jersey, United States of America

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