Mycobacterium tuberculosis RD-Rio Strain in Kazakhstan
Igor Mokrousov
Author affiliations: Almaty Branch of National Center for Biotechnology at Central Reference Laboratory, Almaty, Kazakhstan (Y. Skiba); Aitkhozhin Institute of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Almaty (Y. Skiba, E. Maltseva, N. Malakhova, G. Ismagulova); St. Petersburg Pasteur Institute, St. Petersburg, Russia (I. Mokrousov, A. Vyazovaya); Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Central Asia Regional Office, Almaty (D. Nabirova, D. Moffett); Latvian Biomedical Research and Study Centre, Riga, Latvia (I. Pole, R. Ranka); Ministry of Health, Almaty (Z. Sapiyeva, S. Ismailov); The Global Fund, Geneva, Switzerland (S. Ismailov)
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Figure. Mycobacterium tuberculosis RD-Rio strain in Kazakhstan. A) Section of the variable-number tandem-repeat–based dendrogram of the Latin-American-Mediterranean family of Mycobacterium tuberculosis RD-Rio strain with enlarged branch including SIT20 strain from Kazakhstan. All isolates were drug-susceptible. The complete dendrogram with VNTR profiles is provided in Appendix
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