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Volume 20, Number 11—November 2014
Dispatch

Beijing Lineage of MDR Mycobacterium tuberculosis in Bulgaria, 2007–2011

Stefan PanaiotovComments to Author , Elizabeta Bachiyska, Stanislava Yordanova, Yuliana Atanasova, Nadia Brankova, Viktoria Levterova, Sarah Sengstake, Richard M. Anthony, Indra Bergval, Christophe Sola, and Todor Kantardjiev
Author affiliations: National Center of Infectious and Parasitic Diseases, Sofia, Bulgaria (S. Panaiotov, E. Bachiyska, S. Yordanova, Y. Atanasova, N. Brankova, V. Levterova, T. Kantardjiev); Royal Tropical Institute, Amsterdam, the Netherlands (S. Sengstake, R. Anthony, I. Bergval); University Paris-Sud, Orsay, France (C. Sola)

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Table 1

Phenotypic characteristics of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis Beijing genotype strains identified in Bulgaria, 2007–2011*

Strain Patient 
origin Patient age ,y/sex Case status Drug
susceptibility First-line drugs
 Second-line drugs
STR INH RIF EMB OFL AMK KAN CAP
BG_07_09 Dobrich 35/M PT MDR R R R R S S S S
BG_35_09 Sofia 42/M New MDR R R R R S S S S
BG_104_10 Sofia 25/F New XDR R R R R R R R R
BG_85_10 Varna 32/M New MDR R R R R S S S S
BG_95_10 Varna 59/M New MDR R R R R S S S S
BG_112_11 Sofia 32/M New Susceptible S S S S NA NA NA NA
BG_54_11 Sofia 48/M PT MDR R R R R S S S S

*AMK, amikacin; CAP, capreomycin; EMB, ethambutol; INH, isoniazid; KAN, kanamycin; NA, not applicable; OFL, ofloxacin; PT, previously treated; R, drug resistant; RIF, rifampin; S, drug sensitive; STR, streptomycin..

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