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Syphilis epidemiology in 1994-2013, molecular epidemiological strain typing and determination of macrolide resistance in Treponema pallidum in 2013-2014 in Tuva Republic, Russia.
APMIS : acta pathologica, microbiologica, et immunologica Scandinavica - 1 Jul 2016
Khairullin Rafil, Vorobyev Denis, Obukhov Andrey, Kuular Ural-Herel, Kubanova Anna, Kubanov Alexey, Unemo Magnus
Abstract excerpt
The incidence of syphilis in the Tuva Republic (geographical centre of Asia), Russia has been exceedingly high historically. No detailed examinations and no molecular investigations of Treponema pallidum strains transmitted in the Tuva Republic, or in general, in Russia, were published internationally. We examined the syphilis epidemiology in 1994-2013, and the molecular epidemiology and macrolide resistance in...
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