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Mycobacterium tuberculosis: drug resistance, virulence and possible solutions
1 Laboratory of Bacterial Genetics, Department of Genetics and Biotechnology, Vavilov Institute of General Genetics of RAS, Moscow
2 Scientific Research Center for Biotechnology of Antibiotics "BIOAN", Moscow
3 Laboratory of Immunoglobulin Biosynthesis, Mechnikov Research Institute of Vaccine and Sera, Moscow
Correspondence should be addressed: Valery N. Danilenko
Gubkina 3, Moscow, 119991; ur.ggiv@direlav
Funding: this work was supported by the Project of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation "The role of region-specific polymorphisms of virulence genes in the formation of drug resistance of Mycobacterium tuberculosis" (Project ID RFMEFI61317X0068).
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