TY - JOUR AU - Zhdanova, Svetlana AU - Heysell, Scott AU - Ogarkov, Oleg AU - Boyarinova, Galina AU - Alexeeva, Galina AU - Pholwat, Suporn AU - Zorkaltseva, Elena AU - Houpt, Eric AU - Savilov, Eugeniy T1 - Primary Multidrug-Resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis in 2 Regions, Eastern Siberia, Russian Federation T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal PY - 2013 VL - 19 IS - 10 SP - 1649 SN - 1080-6059 AB - Of 235 Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates from patients who had not received tuberculosis treatment in the Irkutsk oblast and the Sakha Republic (Yakutia), eastern Siberia, 61 (26%) were multidrug resistant. A novel strain, S 256, clustered among these isolates and carried eis-related kanamycin resistance, indicating a need for locally informed diagnosis and treatment strategies. KW - tuberculosis KW - multidrug-resistant tuberculosis KW - MDR-TB KW - HIV KW - Siberia KW - Russian Federation KW - genotype KW - mycobacterial interspersed repetitive unit KW - MIRU-VNTR KW - pncA KW - pyrazinamide KW - tuberculosis and other mycobacteria KW - MDR TB KW - Russia DO - 10.3201/eid1910.121108 UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/19/10/12-1108_article ER - End of Reference