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At Baltic crossroads: a molecular snapshot of Mycobacterium tuberculosis population diversity in Kaliningrad, Russia.
FEMS immunology and medical microbiology - 1 Jan 2009
Mokrousov Igor, Otten Tatiana, Zozio Thierry, Turkin Eugeni, Nazemtseva Vera, Sheremet Aleksandra, Vishnevsky Boris, Narvskaya Olga, Rastogi Nalin
Abstract excerpt
The Kaliningrad region is the westernmost part of the Russian Federation; it includes an enclave on the Baltic Sea inside the European Union separated from mainland Russia by Lithuania and Poland. The incidence of tuberculosis in Kaliningrad has shown a steady and dramatic increase from 83/100,000 in 2000 to 134/100,000 in 2006; the rate of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-tuberculosis) in the Kaliningrad...
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