Nature Medicine
2, 635 - 636 (1996)
doi:10.1038/nm0696-635
Pyrazinamide on the antituberculosis drug frontlineDenis A. MitchisonDepartment of Medical Microbiology, St George's Hospital Medical School, Cranmer Terrace, London SW17 ORE, UK Finding the gene responsible for activating pyrazinamide opens the door to rapid testing for drug resistance (pages 662−667). REFERENCES
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