(Nazarbayev University, 2018-10-18) Kozhamkulov, U.; Kairov, U.; Molkenov, A.; Steins, M.; Akhmetova, А.; Akilzhanova, A
Worldwide in 2016, around 10.4 million people were diagnosed with TB among which 1.7 million died [1]. Despite the progress in decreasing the global incidence of drug-susceptible TB, multidrug-resistant (MDR) and extensively drug-resistant (XDR) tuberculosis in the past decade led to decreased efficiency of chemotherapy. However, the rate of drug-resistant TB increases annually, especially multidrug-resistant TB (MDR TB) [1].