TY - JOUR AU - Mokrousov, Igor T1 - Mycobacterium tuberculosis RD-Rio Strain in Kazakhstan T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal PY - 2019 VL - 25 IS - 3 SP - 604 SN - 1080-6059 AB - 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. KW - tuberculosis KW - molecular epidemiology KW - mycobacteria KW - bacteria KW - drug resistance KW - antimicrobial resistance KW - RD-Rio KW - Kazakhstan KW - tuberculosis and other mycobacteria DO - 10.3201/eid2503.181179 UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/25/3/18-1179_article ER - End of Reference