Predominant Tuberculosis Spoligotypes, Delhi, India

• DOI: 10.3201/eid1006.030575
• Publication Date: 2012-03-29T12:42:31Z
• Authors: Urvashi Balbir Singh; Naga Suresh; N.Vijaya Bhanu; Jyoti Arora; Hema Pant; Sanjeev Sinha; Ram Charan Aggarwal; Sushma Singh; Jitendra Nath Pande; Christophe Sola; Nalin Rastogi; Pradeep Seth
• Keywords: Adult; DNA, Bacterial; Male; 0301 basic medicine; Adolescent; Genotype; India; Infectious and parasitic diseases; RC109-216; direct repeat locus; 03 medical and health sciences; Cluster Analysis; Humans; Tuberculosis; cluster; Phylogeny; Repetitive Sequences, Nucleic Acid; spoligotyping; dendrogram; R; Dispatch; Mycobacterium tuberculosis; spoligotype; Middle Aged; Bacterial Typing Techniques; 3. Good health; Medicine; Female

One hundred five Mycobacterium tuberculosis clinical isolates from the Delhi area were typed by spoligotyping; 45 patterns were identified. Comparison with an international spoligotype database showed type 26, Delhi type (22%), type 54 (12%), and type 1, Beijing type (8%), as the most common. Eighteen spoligotypes did not match any existing database pattern.