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Genetic variation of Mycobacterium tuberculosis circulating in Kharkiv Oblast, Ukraine.
BMC infectious diseases - 28 Mar 2011
Dymova Maya A, Liashenko Oleksander O, Poteiko Petro I, Krutko Valeriy S, Khrapov Eugeny A, Filipenko Maxim L
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BACKGROUND: A persistent increase of tuberculosis cases has recently been noted in the Ukraine. The reported incidence of drug-resistant isolates of M. tuberculosis is growing steadily; however, data on the genetic variation of isolates of M. tuberculosis circulating in northern Ukraine and on the spectrum and frequency of occurrence of mutations determining resistance to the principal anti-tuberculosis drugs...
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