Mycobacterium tuberculosis population in northwestern Russia: an update from Russian-EU/Latvian border region.

Mycobacterium tuberculosis population in northwestern Russia: an update from Russian-EU/Latvian border region.

This study aimed to characterize the population structure of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in Pskov oblast in northwestern Russia, to view it in the geographical context, to compare drug resistance properties across major genetic families. Ninety M. tuberculosis strains from tuberculosis (TB) patients,...

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Main Authors: Igor Mokrousov, Anna Vyazovaya, Tatiana Otten, Viacheslav Zhuravlev, Elena Pavlova, Larisa Tarashkevich, Valery Krishevich, Boris Vishnevsky, Olga Narvskaya
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3402494?pdf=render

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