Emerging Infectious Diseases (Jun 2004)

Predominant Tuberculosis Spoligotypes, Delhi, India

  • 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

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid1006.030575
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 6
pp. 1138 – 1142

Abstract

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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.

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