Multidrug- and Extensively Drug-Resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis Beijing Clades, Ukraine, 2015
Matthias Merker
, Elena Nikolaevskaya, Thomas A. Kohl, Barbara Molina-Moya, Olha Pavlovska, Patrik Brännberg, Andrii Dudnyk, Valentyna Stokich, Ivan Barilar, Iryna Marynova, Tetiana Filipova, Cristina Prat, Anders Sjöstedt, Jose Dominguez, Olena Rzhepishevska
, and Stefan Niemann
Author affiliations: Research Center Borstel, Borstel, Germany (M. Merker, T.A. Kohl, I. Barilar, S. Niemann); Odessa Regional TB Hospital, Odessa, Ukraine (E. Nikolaevskaya, O. Pavlovska, V. Stokich); Institut d'Investigació Germans Trias i Pujol, Badalona, Spain (B. Molina-Moya, C. Prat, J. Dominguez); Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red (CIBERES), Badalona (B. Molina-Moya, C. Prat, J. Dominguez); Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain (B. Molina-Moya, C. Prat, J. Dominguez); Umeå University, Umea, Sweden (P. Brännberg, A. Sjöstedt, O. Rzhepishevska); National Pirogov Memorial Medical University, Vinnytsia, Ukraine (A. Dudnyk); Odessa I.I. Mechnikov National University, Odessa (I. Marynova, T. Filipova); German Center for Infection Research, Hamburg-Lübeck-Borstel-Riems, Germany (S. Niemann)
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Figure 1. Locations where Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex (MTBC) DNA samples were collected in Odessa and Vinnytsia regions. Yellow dots indicate locations of patients infected with a MTBC lineage 2 Ukraine outbreak strain. Green dots indicate major cities.s
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