TY - JOUR N1 - The copyright of this article belongs to Dove Press ID - open2990 UR - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9005233/ A1 - Rana, Vibhuti A1 - Singh, Nittu A1 - Nikam, Chaitali A1 - Kambli, Priti A1 - Singh, Pravin Kumar A1 - Singh, Urmila A1 - Jain, Amita A1 - Rodrigues, Camilla A1 - Sharma, Charu Y1 - 2022/04/08/ N2 - The mechanistic details of first line drug (FLD) resistance have been thoroughly explored but the genetic resistance mechanisms of second line injectables, which form the backbone of the combinatorial drug resistant tuberculosis therapy, are partially identified. This study aims to highlight the genetic and spoligotypic differences in the second line drug (SLD) resistant and sensitive Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) clinical isolates from Mumbai (Western India) and Lucknow (Northern India). PB - Dove Press JF - Infection and Drug Resistance VL - 15 KW - drug resistant tuberculosis; single nucleotide polymorphism; rrs; eis; whiB7; spoligotyping TI - Molecular Epidemiology and Polymorphism Analysis in Drug-Resistant Genes in M. tuberculosis Clinical Isolates from Western and Northern India SP - 1717 EP - 1732 ER -