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Mycobacterium tuberculosis Drug Resistance, Abkhazia
To the Editor: Drug-resistant
tuberculosis (TB) has been identified
as a major problem in the former
Soviet Union, and was recently surveyed
in the Aral Sea regions of
Dashoguz (Turkmenistan) and
Karakalpakstan (Uzbekistan) (1).
However, few data are available for
the Caucasian region and published
reports have focused mainly on prisons
(2,3).
We report a drug resistance survey
for first- and second-line anti-TB
drugs conducted in Abkhazia, a
Caucasian region of 8,600 km2 with
approximately 250,000 inhabitants, at
the western end of Georgia on the
Black Sea