Beijing Lineage of MDR Mycobacterium tuberculosis in Bulgaria, 2007–2011

To assess the spread of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis Beijing genotype among patients with multidrug-resistant and extensively resistant tuberculosis in Bulgaria, we genotyped 188 (72%) of 261 microbiologically confirmed resistant isolates obtained during 2007–2011. The estimated prevalence of the...

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Autores principales: Panaiotov, Stefan, Bachiyska, Elizabeta, Yordanova, Stanislava, Atanasova, Yuliana, Brankova, Nadia, Levterova, Viktoria, Sengstake, Sarah, Anthony, Richard, Bergval, Indra, Sola, Christophe, Kantardjiev, Todor
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4214304/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25340498
http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid2011.140468
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Sumario:To assess the spread of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis Beijing genotype among patients with multidrug-resistant and extensively resistant tuberculosis in Bulgaria, we genotyped 188 (72%) of 261 microbiologically confirmed resistant isolates obtained during 2007–2011. The estimated prevalence of the Beijing genotype among these patients was 3.2%.

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