Emerging Infectious Diseases (Nov 2014)

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 M. Anthony,
  • Indra Bergval,
  • Christophe Sola,
  • Todor Kantardjiev

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid2011.140468
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 20, no. 11
pp. 1899 – 1901

Abstract

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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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