Publications by authors named "Regina Mudarisova"
Buryatia is a multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) high-burden region in the Russian Far East with ethnically diverse population (30 % Mongoloid Buryats and 65 % Russians). Two hundred M. tuberculosis strains from newly-diagnosed patients were subjected to phenotypic testing and genotyping.
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- * Among the Beijing strains, 50% are multidrug-resistant (MDR), with the B0/W148 group showing a significantly higher MDR prevalence (85.7%) compared to the Central Asian/Russian group (40.3%).
- * The study identified various specific profiles within the Beijing strains, highlighting the need for focus on MDR variants due to their role in the increasing rates of MDR-TB transmission.