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

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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Main Authors: Stefan Panaiotov, Elizabeta Bachiyska, Stanislava Yordanova, Yuliana Atanasova, Nadia Brankova, Viktoria Levterova, Sarah Sengstake, Richard M. Anthony, Indra Bergval, Christophe Sola, Todor Kantardjiev
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2014-11-01
Series:Emerging Infectious Diseases
Subjects:
tuberculosis
MDR TB
XDR TB
genotype
tuberculosis and other mycobacteria
Bulgaria
Online Access:https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/20/11/14-0468_article

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