Drug resistance of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in the Ural region of Russian Federation

Conclusions: In the Ural regions there is distribution of MDR strains with high level DR to first and second line drugs including XDR TB among new TB cases and retreatment cases in 12.2% and 19.0% respectively.

Source: European Respiratory Journal - November 20, 2019 Category: Respiratory Medicine Authors: Filatova, E., Testov, V., Glebov, K., Medvinsky, I., Panova, A., Burmistrova, I., Sterlikov, S., Filina, E. Tags: Tuberculosis Source Type: research