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. 2014 Nov;20(11):1899-901.
doi: 10.3201/eid2011.140468.

Beijing lineage of MDR Mycobacterium tuberculosis in Bulgaria, 2007-2011

Stefan Panaiotov, Elizabeta Bachiyska, Stanislava Yordanova, Yuliana Atanasova, Nadia Brankova, Viktoria Levterova, Sarah Sengstake, Richard Anthony, Indra Bergval, Christophe Sola, Todor Kantardjiev

Beijing lineage of MDR Mycobacterium tuberculosis in Bulgaria, 2007-2011

Stefan Panaiotov et al. Emerg Infect Dis. 2014 Nov.

Abstract

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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