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Emerging multidrug resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains of the Beijing genotype circulating in Russia express a pattern of biological properties associated with enhanced virulence.
Microbes and infection - 1 Jun 2010
Lasunskaia Elena, Ribeiro Simone C M, Manicheva Olga, Gomes Lia Lima, Suffys Philip N, Mokrousov Igor, Ferrazoli Lucilaine, Andrade Marcelle R M, Kritski Afranio, Otten Tatiana, Kipnis Thereza L, da Silva Wilmar D, Vishnevsky Boris, Oliveira Martha M, Gomes Harrison M, Baptista Ida F, Narvskaya Olga
Abstract excerpt
The epidemiologically important Mycobacterium tuberculosis Beijing genotype strains, highly endemic in East Asia, have become an emerging infection in certain geographic areas, including Russia, because of its increasing prevalence and association with multidrug resistance (MDR). The aim was to verify whether MDR Beijing strains circulating in the emerging regions present some biological particularities that...
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