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Alarming levels of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in Ukraine: results from the first national survey

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2018

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Elena Pavlenko, A. I. Barbova, Arax Hovhannesyan, Z. Tsenilova, Andrej Slavuckij, B. Shcherbak-Verlan, Alexander Zhurilo, E. Vitek, Girts Skenders, Ivita Sela,

The International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease

Abstract

Our study showed that the burden of MDR-TB in Ukraine was much greater than previously assumed. Urgent actions are needed to prevent further spread of drug-resistant TB in Ukraine.