[Use of automated bactec MGIT 960 system in the diagnosis of resistance to reserve drugs agents in Samara].

The paper gives the results of a demonstration project to introduce a test for drug sensitivity to second-line antituberculous agents for patients with multidrug-resistant (MDR) tuberculosis at a routine large Russian laboratory. Two hundred and thirty MDR isolates were examined; of them 8.7% had extreme drug resistance.

[Spoligotyping of mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates obtained from patients in the Samara region].

The spoligotyping of 138 M. tuberculosis isolates obtained on the territory of the Samara region made it possible to classify them as belonging to 27 groups. The largest cluster including 94 strains (68.