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Russia Faces Spread of Tuberculosis Strain Resistant to Key Antibiotics

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A drug-resistant strain of tuberculosis known as EurA1.1 has been detected in several regions of Russia, with researchers finding resistance to multiple antibiotics used to treat the disease.

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The Russian health-care system has all the resources necessary to combat the strain of tuberculosis EuroA1.1, which was announced by Vadim Testov, the first deputy director of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation of Physiopulmonology and Infective Diseases.

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In Russia, there have been cases of infection with the EuroA1.1 strain of tuberculosis, which is highly resistant to antibiotics and was previously thought to be prevalent mainly in Belarus. The antibiotic resistant strain of the Eura1.1 tuberculosis strain, which was originally thought to be predominantly Belarusian, has been recorded in Russia and is being transmitted to npj Antimicrobials and Resistance. It was opened in 2006. A genomic analy…

The emergence in Russia of a new strain of tuberculosis resistant to some key antibiotics does not add optimism, nor is it a disaster, as stated by the former head of Rospernadzor, a leading epidemiological expert, an academic of Ran Gennady Onishchenko, in a conversation with Abzac.

·Moscow, Russian Federation (the)
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