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Increasing circulation of multi-drug resistant tuberculosis strains in Buryatia, high-burden and ethnically diverse region in the Russian Far East.
Tuberculosis (Edinburgh, Scotland) - 1 Dec 2024
Mokrousov Igor, Badleeva Maria, Mudarisova Regina, Kozhevnikov Valery, Markhaev Andrey, Guntupova Anastasia, Vyazovaya Anna
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Buryatia is a multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) high-burden region in the Russian Far East with ethnically diverse population (30 % Mongoloid Buryats and 65 % Russians). Two hundred M. tuberculosis strains from newly-diagnosed patients were subjected to phenotypic testing and genotyping. The Beijing genotype was more prevalent among Russians than Buryats (68 % vs 53 %; P = 0.055). European non-Beijing...
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