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. 2019 Mar;25(3):604-606.
doi: 10.3201/eid2503.181179.

Mycobacterium tuberculosis RD-Rio Strain in Kazakhstan

Yuriy Skiba, Igor Mokrousov, Dilyara Nabirova, Anna Vyazovaya, Elina Maltseva, Natalya Malakhova, Gulnara Ismagulova, Ilva Pole, Renate Ranka, Zhanar Sapiyeva, Shakhimurat Ismailov, Daphne Moffett

Mycobacterium tuberculosis RD-Rio Strain in Kazakhstan

Yuriy Skiba et al. Emerg Infect Dis. 2019 Mar.

Abstract

Mycobacterium tuberculosis RD-Rio strains are still rare in the former Soviet Union countries and Asia. We describe a strain in Kazakhstan that belongs to the RD-Rio secondary branch, which is endemic to northwest Russia and eastern Europe. Although RD-Rio strains are frequently multidrug resistant, this heterogeneous branch included only drug-susceptible isolates.

Keywords: Kazakhstan; RD-Rio; antimicrobial resistance; bacteria; drug resistance; molecular epidemiology; mycobacteria; tuberculosis and other mycobacteria.

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Mycobacterium tuberculosis RD-Rio strain in Kazakhstan. A) Section of the variable-number tandem-repeat–based dendrogram of the Latin-American-Mediterranean family of Mycobacterium tuberculosis RD-Rio strain with enlarged branch including SIT20 strain from Kazakhstan. All isolates were drug susceptible. The complete dendrogram with VNTR profiles is provided in Appendix Figures 1,2. B) Binary spoligoprofiles of the studied strains.
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