The recent rapid expansion of multidrug resistant Ural lineage Mycobacterium tuberculosis in Moldova

Abstract The projected trajectory of multidrug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) epidemics depends on the reproductive fitness of circulating strains of MDR M. tuberculosis (Mtb). Previous efforts to characterize the fitness of MDR Mtb have found that Mtb strains of the Beijing sublineage (Lineage 2.2...

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Main Authors: Melanie H. Chitwood, Caroline Colijn, Chongguang Yang, Valeriu Crudu, Nelly Ciobanu, Alexandru Codreanu, Jaehee Kim, Isabel Rancu, Kyu Rhee, Ted Cohen, Benjamin Sobkowiak
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2024-04-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-47282-9