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Severe Clinical Outcomes of Tuberculosis in Kharkiv Region, Ukraine, Are Associated with Beijing Strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis
10 Jun 2019
Abstract excerpt
Genotypic variation in Beijing lineages of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB), the causative agent of tuberculosis (TB), has been associated with hyper virulence and the spread of extensively and multiple drug (X/MDR) resistant MTB strains in Eastern Europe, Central Asia, and East Asia. The clinical outcomes of 215 new cases of TB among the population of the Kharkiv region of Eastern Ukraine were analyzed to...
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