New epidemic cluster of pre-extensively drug resistant isolates of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Ural family emerging in Eastern Europe

New epidemic cluster of pre-extensively drug resistant isolates of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Ural family emerging in Eastern Europe

Abstract Background Ural genetic family is a part of the Euro-American lineage of Mycobacterium tuberculosis and is endemic in Northern Eurasia (former Soviet Union [FSU]). These strains were long described as drug susceptible and of low virulence, but recent studies reported an increasing circulati...

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Main Authors: Viacheslav Sinkov, Oleg Ogarkov, Igor Mokrousov, Yuri Bukin, Svetlana Zhdanova, Scott K. Heysell
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2018-10-01
Series:BMC Genomics
Subjects:
Mycobacterium tuberculosis
Ural genotype
Molecular epidemiology
Molecular evolution
Phylogeography
Phylogenetics
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12864-018-5162-3

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