ORIGINAL RESEARCH
Compilation of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis Beijing-b0 lineage sample and identifying predictors of immune dysfunction in source patients
1 Laboratory of Bacterial Genetics,Vavilov Institute of General Genetics of RAS, Moscow
2 National Medical Research Center for Phthisiopulmonology and Infectious Diseases (branch of the Ural Research Institute for Phthisiopulmonology), Ekaterinburg
Correspondence should be addressed: Kirill V. Shur
Gubkina 3, Moscow, 119333; moc.liamg@llirikruhs
Funding: the study is part of the project No. RFMEFI61317X0068 "The role of region-specific polymorphisms of virulence genes in the development of drug resistance by Mycobacterium tuberculosis" run by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation.