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[Today's tuberculosis: the specific features of its pathogen, clinical picture, and treatment].
Problemy tuberkuleza i boleznei legkikh - 1 Jan 2005
Skvortsova L A, Pavlova M V, Sapozhnikova n V, Veshnevskiĭ B I, Narvskaia O V
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Clinical Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MBT) strains (their genotype, drug resistance, and virulence) and the characteristics of their caused processes were studied. More than a half the studied MBT isolates belonged to the genetic family Beijing. As compared with mycobacteria of individual genotypes, they showed a significantly higher rate of multidrug resistance, polyresistance, and a high virulescence and caused...
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