Prominent university researchers published an article in one of the most prestigious scientific journals worldwide
Dr. Ali Akbar Velayati, Head of Dr. Masih Daneshvari hospital and National Research Institute of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease at Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, and Dr. Parisa Farnia Deputy-Director of Research and Development at National Research Institute of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease in a joint international collaboration managed to publish an article titled “Genomic analysis of globally diverse Mycobacterium tuberculosisstrains provides insights into the emergence and spread of multidrug resistance” in Nature Genetics, one of the most prominent scientific journals worldwide. This study assessed a data set of 5,310 M. tuberculosisisolates from five continents using sequencing techniques. The results of this study indicate that polymorphisms detected before the appearance of strains resistant to multiple drug therapy and may be an impressive therapeutic target for patients with tuberculosis before entering the multidrug-resistant stage, which prevents the further development of drug-resistant strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis.