Patterns of compensatory mutations in rpoA/B/C genes of multidrug resistant M. tuberculosis in Uganda

• David Patrick Kateete ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: david.kateete@mak.ac.ug (DPK), mlj10@case.edu (MLJ)

  Affiliations Department of Medical Microbiology, School of Biomedical Sciences, Makerere University College of Health Sciences, Kampala, Uganda, Department of Immunology and Molecular Biology, School of Biomedical Sciences, Makerere University College of Health Sciences, Kampala, Uganda

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8075-3069

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• Shakira Namakula ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Shakira Namakula, Edgar Kigozi

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Medical Microbiology, School of Biomedical Sciences, Makerere University College of Health Sciences, Kampala, Uganda, Department of Immunology and Molecular Biology, School of Biomedical Sciences, Makerere University College of Health Sciences, Kampala, Uganda

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• Edgar Kigozi ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Shakira Namakula, Edgar Kigozi

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Medical Microbiology, School of Biomedical Sciences, Makerere University College of Health Sciences, Kampala, Uganda, Department of Immunology and Molecular Biology, School of Biomedical Sciences, Makerere University College of Health Sciences, Kampala, Uganda

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• Fred A. Katabazi,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation

  Affiliations Department of Medical Microbiology, School of Biomedical Sciences, Makerere University College of Health Sciences, Kampala, Uganda, Department of Immunology and Molecular Biology, School of Biomedical Sciences, Makerere University College of Health Sciences, Kampala, Uganda

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• George William Kasule,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation National TB/Leprosy Program, Ministry of Health Uganda, Kampala, Uganda

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• Kenneth Musisi,

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation National TB/Leprosy Program, Ministry of Health Uganda, Kampala, Uganda

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• Edward Wampande,

  Roles Data curation, Visualization

  Affiliations Department of Medical Microbiology, School of Biomedical Sciences, Makerere University College of Health Sciences, Kampala, Uganda, Department of Veterinary Medicine, Clinical and Comparative Medicine, College of Veterinary Medicine, Animal Resources and Bio-Security, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda

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• Deus Lukoye,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation National TB/Leprosy Program, Ministry of Health Uganda, Kampala, Uganda

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• Moses L. Joloba

  Roles Funding acquisition, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: david.kateete@mak.ac.ug (DPK), mlj10@case.edu (MLJ)

  Affiliations Department of Medical Microbiology, School of Biomedical Sciences, Makerere University College of Health Sciences, Kampala, Uganda, Department of Immunology and Molecular Biology, School of Biomedical Sciences, Makerere University College of Health Sciences, Kampala, Uganda

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