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A Case of Transmission of Bedaquiline- and Linezolid-Resistant Tuberculosis.
International journal of molecular sciences - 29 May 2026
Ushtanit Anastasia, Peretokina Irina, Krylova Ludmila, Safonova Svetlana, Filippov Alexey, Zimenkov Danila
Abstract excerpt
Tuberculosis is one of the hardest-to-treat bacterial diseases with a high capacity to develop antibiotic resistance. The treatment scheme based on bedaquiline and linezolid was introduced in Russia in 2014 and, since 2018, has been widely used for the treatment of resistant tuberculosis. In our study of clinical M. tuberculosis isolates, we identified a case of a recent transmission of a strain with mutations in...
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