1. Genetic diversity of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis East AfricanâIndian family in three tropical Asian countries
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Jun-Ren Sun, Jia-Ru Chang, Wei Chen, Horng-Yunn Dou, Ih-Jen Su, Wei-Feng Huang, Ming-Shian Lin, Chih-Hao Hsu, Han-Yin Cheng, Shu-Chen Kuo, and Yih-Yuan Chen
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0301 basic medicine ,Microbiology (medical) ,DNA, Bacterial ,Genetic Markers ,Lineage (evolution) ,030106 microbiology ,Taiwan ,lcsh:QR1-502 ,Microbial Sensitivity Tests ,lcsh:Microbiology ,Mycobacterium tuberculosis ,03 medical and health sciences ,Spacer Oligonucleotide Typing ,Tandem repeat ,Asian People ,Immunology and Microbiology(all) ,Asian country ,Immunology and Allergy ,Humans ,Typing ,Tuberculosis, Pulmonary ,Genetics ,Genetic diversity ,Singapore ,General Immunology and Microbiology ,biology ,Traditional medicine ,Strain (biology) ,Genetic Variation ,General Medicine ,biology.organism_classification ,bacterial infections and mycoses ,Interspersed Repetitive Sequences ,Molecular Typing ,030104 developmental biology ,Infectious Diseases ,East African–Indian family ,DNA, Intergenic ,tropical Asian countries ,Cambodia - Abstract
Background: The Beijing lineage of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) is the most predominant MTB strain in Asian countries and is spreading worldwide, however, the East AfricanâIndian (EAI) lineage is also particularly prevalent in many tropical Asian countries. The evolutionary relationships among MTB EAI isolates from Taiwan and those of tropical Asian countries remain unknown. Methods: The EAI strains collected from patients in Taiwan were analyzed using spacer oligonucleotide typing and mycobacterial interspersed repetitive unitâvariable number of tandem repeats (MIRU-VNTR) typing, and compared with published profiles from Cambodia and Singapore to investigate potential epidemiological linkages. Results: Among the three countries, the EAI lineage was most prevalent in Cambodia (60%; Singapore, 25.62%; and Taiwan, 21.85%), having also the highest rates of multidrug resistance and lowest rates of clustering of MTB isolates. We describe a convenient method using seven selected MIRU-VNTR loci for first-line typing to discriminate Beijing and EAI lineages. A potential epidemiological linkage in these tropical Asian countries is also discussed based on a minimum-spanning tree constructed using 24 MIRU-VNTR loci of MTB EAI strains. Conclusion: This study identified evolutionary relationships among MTB EAI isolates from Taiwan and those of two other tropical Asian countries, Cambodia and Singapore. Keywords: East AfricanâIndian family, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, tropical Asian countries
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- 2017