@article{fa87757fa343465f9f8dc69c833d069f,
title = "Mycobacterium tuberculosis RD-rio strain in Kazakhstan",
abstract = "Mycobacterium tuberculosis RD-Rio strains are still rare in the former Soviet Union countries and Asia. We describe a strain in Kazakhstan that belongs to the RD-Rio secondary branch, which is endemic to northwest Russia and eastern Europe. Although RD-Rio strains are frequently multidrug resistant, this heterogeneous branch included only drug-susceptible isolates.",
author = "Yuriy Skiba and Igor Mokrousov and Dilyara Nabirova and Anna Vyazovaya and Elina Maltseva and Natalya Malakhova and Gulnara Ismagulova and Ilva Pole and Renate Ranka and Zhanar Sapiyeva and Shakhimurat Ismailov and Daphne Moffett",
note = "Funding Information: Funding for Y.S. is through Ministry of Education and Science of Republic of Kazakhstan grant 3732/GF4, and Ministry of Health of Republic of Kazakhstan program 49019/PCF-MZSR-OT-18. Funding for I.M. and A.V. is through Russian Science Foundation grant 14-14-00292. Funding for I.P. and R.R. is through Latvian National Research program VPP 5.7 “Biomedicine.” Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2019, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). All rights reserved.",
year = "2019",
month = mar,
doi = "10.3201/eid2503.181179",
language = "English",
volume = "25",
pages = "604--606",
journal = "Emerging Infectious Diseases",
issn = "1080-6040",
publisher = "Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)",
number = "3",
}
