The doctor assessed the risk of a tuberculosis outbreak due to the EurA1.1 strain in Russia

The dangerous tuberculosis pathogen EurA1.1, which is resistant to several types of antibiotics, has begun to circulate in Russia.

Natalya Miropolskaya, Associate Professor of the Department of Polyclinic and Social Pediatrics at the Institute of Public Health Pediatrics at Pirogov University, said that the detection of the pathogen EurA1.1 does not mean the risk of a large-scale outbreak of tuberculosis in Russia.

MOSCOW, September 10 - RIA Novosti. The discovery of a new tuberculosis pathogen does not mean the risk of a large-scale outbreak of the disease in Russia, Natalya Miropolskaya, associate professor of the department of polyclinic and social pediatrics at Pirogov University, told RIA Novosti.

Earlier, the Izvestia newspaper, citing a genetic study by European scientists and comments from domestic doctors, reported that the dangerous tuberculosis pathogen EurA1.1 began to circulate in Russia. According to them, due to the resistance of the pathogen to several types of antibiotics, treatment of the infection is complicated, but doctors still have means to combat the disease.

“As for the risk of a large-scale outbreak, the very discovery of individual genetically related isolates does not mean that such an outbreak is inevitable. Today, EurA1.1 is not the dominant variant of tuberculosis in Russia, so there is no reason to say that this particular lineage has already caused a massive increase in incidence,” Miropolskaya said.