Predominant Tuberculosis Spoligotypes, Delhi, India

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
Source :: Emerging Infectious Diseases, Vol 10, Iss 6, Pp 1138-1142 (2004)
Publication Year :: 2004
Publisher :: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2004.
Abstract: 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.