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Molecular characteristics of Mycobacterium tuberculosis drug-resistant isolates from HIV- and HIV+ tuberculosis patients in Russia.
BMC microbiology - 19 May 2022
Panova Anna E, Vinokurov Anatoliy S, Shemetova Anastasiya A, Burmistrova Irina A, Shulgina Marina V, Samoilova Anastasiya G, Vasilyeva Irina A, Vakhrusheva Diana V, Umpeleva Tatiana V, Eremeeva Nataliya I, Lavrenchuk Leonid S, Golubeva Lyudmila A, Danilova Tatiana I, Vasilyeva Tatiana B, Ugol'kova Vera A, Sosova Nataliya V, Lekhlyaider Marina V, Gorshkova Irina A, Romanova Tatiana A
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BACKGROUND: High burden of drug-resistant (DR) tuberculosis (TB) is a significant threat to national TB control programs all over the world and in the Russian Federation. Different Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) genotypes are hypothesized to have specific characteristics affecting TB control programs. For example, Beijing strains are supposed to have higher mutation rates compared to strains of other genotypes...
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