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Rana V, Singh N, Nikam C, Kambli P, Singh PK, Singh U, Jain A, Rodrigues C, Sharma C. Molecular Epidemiology and Polymorphism Analysis in Drug-Resistant Genes in M. tuberculosis Clinical Isolates from Western and Northern India. Infect Drug Resist 2022; 15:1717-1732. [PMID: 35422638 PMCID: PMC9005233 DOI: 10.2147/idr.s345855] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/09/2021] [Accepted: 03/02/2022] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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Introduction The mechanistic details of first line drug (FLD) resistance have been thoroughly explored but the genetic resistance mechanisms of second line injectables, which form the backbone of the combinatorial drug resistant tuberculosis therapy, are partially identified. This study aims to highlight the genetic and spoligotypic differences in the second line drug (SLD) resistant and sensitive Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) clinical isolates from Mumbai (Western India) and Lucknow (Northern India). Methods The rrs, eis, whiB7, tlyA, gyrA and gyrB target loci were screened in 126 isolates and spoligotyped. Results The novel mutations were observed in whiB7 loci (A43T, C44A, C47A, G48T, G59A and T152G in 5’-UTR; A42C, C253T and T270G in gene), tlyA (+CG200, G165A, C415G, and +G543) and gyrB (+G1359 and +A1429). Altogether, the rrs, eis, and whiB7 loci harbored mutations in ~86% and ~47% kanamycin resistant isolates from Mumbai and Lucknow, respectively. Mumbai strains displayed higher prevalence of mutations in gyrA (~85%) and gyrB loci (~13%) as compared to those from Lucknow (~69% and ~3.0%, respectively). Further, spoligotyping revealed that Beijing lineage is distributed equally amongst the drug resistant strains of Mumbai and Lucknow, but EAI-5 is existed at a higher level only in Mumbai. The lineages Manu2, CAS1-Delhi and T1 are more prevalent in Lucknow. Conclusion Besides identifying novel mutations in whiB7, tlyA and gyrB target loci, our analyses unveiled a potential polymorphic and phylogeographical demarcation among two distinct regions.
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- Vibhuti Rana
- CSIR- Institute of Microbial Technology, Chandigarh, 160036, India
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- CSIR- Institute of Microbial Technology, Chandigarh, 160036, India
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- Department of Microbiology, P. D. Hinduja National Hospital and Medical Research Centre, Mumbai, 400016, Maharashtra, India
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- Department of Microbiology, P. D. Hinduja National Hospital and Medical Research Centre, Mumbai, 400016, Maharashtra, India
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- Department of Microbiology, King George Medical University, Lucknow, 226003, Uttar Pradesh, India
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- Department of Microbiology, King George Medical University, Lucknow, 226003, Uttar Pradesh, India
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- Department of Microbiology, King George Medical University, Lucknow, 226003, Uttar Pradesh, India
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- Department of Microbiology, P. D. Hinduja National Hospital and Medical Research Centre, Mumbai, 400016, Maharashtra, India
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- CSIR- Institute of Microbial Technology, Chandigarh, 160036, India
- Correspondence: Charu Sharma, CSIR-Institute of Microbial Technology, Sector 39-A, Chandigarh, 160036, India, Tel +911722880309/310, Fax +911722690585, Email
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Dusthackeer A, Kumar A, Mohanvel SK, Mahizhaveni B, Shivakumar S, Raghavi S, Azhagendran S, Vetrivel S, Rao VG, Yadav R, Paluru V, Purthy AJ, Hussain T, Kashyap V, Devi KR, Krishnan AKI, Anand P, Das P, Bansal AK, Das M, Kaur H, Raghunath D, Mondal R, Thomas BE. Mycobacterium tuberculosis strain lineage in mixed tribal population across India and Andaman Nicobar Island. World J Microbiol Biotechnol 2021; 37:192. [PMID: 34637049 DOI: 10.1007/s11274-021-03164-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/28/2021] [Accepted: 10/04/2021] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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In India, the tribal population constitutes almost 8.6% of the nation's total population. Despite their large presence, there are only a few reports available on Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M. tb) strain prevalence in Indian tribal communities considering the mobile nature of this population and also the influence of the mainstream populations they coexist within many areas for their livelihood. This study attempts to provide critical information pertaining to the TB strain diversity, its public health implications, and distribution among the tribal population in eleven Indian states and Andaman & Nicobar (A&N) Island. The study employed a population-based molecular approach. Clinical isolates were received from 66 villages (10 states and Island) and these villages were selected by implying situation analysis. A total of 78 M. tb clinical isolates were received from 10 different states and A&N Island. Among these, 16 different strains were observed by spoligotyping technique. The major M. tb strains spoligotype belong to the Beijing, CAS1_DELHI, and EAI5 family of M. tb strains followed by EAI1_SOM, EAI6_BGD1, LAM3, LAM6, LAM9, T1, T2, U strains. Drug-susceptibility testing (DST) results showed almost 15.4% of clinical isolates found to be resistant to isoniazid (INH) or rifampicin (RMP) + INH. Predominant multidrug-resistant (MDR-TB) isolates seem to be Beijing strain. Beijing, CAS1_DELHI, EAI3_IND, and EAI5 were the principal strains infecting mixed tribal populations across India. Despite the small sample size, this study has demonstrated higher diversity among the TB strains with significant MDR-TB findings. Prevalence of Beijing MDR-TB strains in Central, Southern, Eastern India and A&N Island indicates the transmission of the TB strains.
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- Azger Dusthackeer
- Department of Bacteriology, Indian Council of Medical Research-National Institute for Research in Tuberculosis, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, 600031, India.
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- Department of Bacteriology, Indian Council of Medical Research-National Institute for Research in Tuberculosis, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, 600031, India
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- Department of Bacteriology, Indian Council of Medical Research-National Institute for Research in Tuberculosis, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, 600031, India
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- Department of Bacteriology, Indian Council of Medical Research-National Institute for Research in Tuberculosis, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, 600031, India
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- Department of Social and Behavioural Research, Indian Council of Medical Research-National Institute for Research in Tuberculosis, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, 600031, India
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- Department of Social and Behavioural Research, Indian Council of Medical Research-National Institute for Research in Tuberculosis, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, 600031, India
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- Department of Social and Behavioural Research, Indian Council of Medical Research-National Institute for Research in Tuberculosis, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, 600031, India
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- Division of Communicable Diseases, Indian Council of Medical Research-National Institute for Research in Tribal Health, Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh, 482003, India
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- Division of Communicable Diseases, Indian Council of Medical Research-National Institute for Research in Tribal Health, Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh, 482003, India
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- Clinical Microbiology, Indian Council of Medical Research-Regional Medical Research Centre, Port Blair, Andaman and Nicobar Island, 744101, India
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- Department of Community Medicine, Pondicherry Institute of Medical Sciences, Puducherry, 605014, India
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- Department of Immunology, Indian Council of Medical Research-Regional Medical Research Centre, Bhubaneshwar, Odisha, 721023, India
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- Department of Preventive and Social Medicine, Rajendra Institute of Medical Sciences, Ranchi, Jharkhand, 834009, India
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- ICMR - Regional Medical Research Centre, N. E. Region, Diburgah, Assam, 786 001, India
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- School of Public Health, SRM Medical College Research Centre, Kancheepuram (Dt), Kattankulathur, Tamil Nadu, 603203, India
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- Desert Medicine Research Centre (ICMR), New Pali Road, Jodhpur, Rajasthan, 342005, India
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- ICMR - Rajendra Memorial Research of Medical Science (RMRIMS), Agamkuan, Patna, Bihar, 800007, India
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- Department of Epidemiology/Public Health, ICMR-National JALMA Institute of Leprosy and Other Mycobacterial Diseases, Dr. M. Miyazaki Marg, Tajganj, Agra, 282001, India
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- Division of Epidemiology and Communicable Diseases, Indian Council of Medical Research, New Delhi, 110016, India
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- Division of Epidemiology and Communicable Diseases, Indian Council of Medical Research, New Delhi, 110016, India
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- Tribal TB ICMR Task Force, Indian Council of Medical Research, New Delhi, 110016, India
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- ICMR - Bhopal Memorial Hospital & Research Centre, Bhopal, India.
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- Department of Social and Behavioural Research, Indian Council of Medical Research-National Institute for Research in Tuberculosis, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, 600031, India
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Diriba G, Kebede A, Tola HH, Alemu A, Yenew B, Moga S, Addise D, Mohammed Z, Getahun M, Fantahun M, Tadesse M, Dagne B, Amare M, Assefa G, Abera D, Desta K. Mycobacterial Lineages Associated with Drug Resistance in Patients with Extrapulmonary Tuberculosis in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Tuberc Res Treat 2021; 2021:5239529. [PMID: 34589236 PMCID: PMC8476284 DOI: 10.1155/2021/5239529] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/01/2021] [Accepted: 08/31/2021] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND In Ethiopia, tuberculosis (TB) is one of the most common causes of illness and death. However, there is limited information available on lineages associated with drug resistance among extrapulmonary tuberculosis patients in Ethiopia. In this study, researchers looked into Mycobacterium tuberculosis lineages linked to drug resistance in patients with extrapulmonary tuberculosis in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. METHODS On 151 Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates, a cross-sectional analysis was performed. Spoligotyping was used to characterize mycobacterial lineages, while a phenotypic drug susceptibility test was performed to determine the drug resistance pattern. Data were analyzed using SPSS version 23. RESULTS Among 151 Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex (MTBC) genotyped isolates, four lineages (L1-L4), and Mycobacterium bovis were identified. The predominantly identified lineage was Euro-American (73.5%) followed by East-African-Indian (19.2%). Any drug resistance (RR) and multidrug-resistant (MDR) tuberculosis was identified among 16.2% and 7.2% of the Euro-American lineage, respectively, while it was 30.8% and 15.4% among the East-African-Indian lineages. Among all three preextensively drug-resistance (pre-XDR) cases identified, two isolates belong to T3-ETH, and the other one strain was not defined by the database. There was no statistically significant association between any type of drug resistance and either lineage or sublineages of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. CONCLUSION A higher proportion of any type of drug resistance and MDR was detected among the East-African-Indian lineage compared to others. However, there was no statistically significant association between any type of drug resistance and either lineages or sublineages. Thus, the authors recommend a large-scale study.
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- Getu Diriba
- Ethiopian Public Health Institute, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
- Department of Medical Laboratory Sciences, College of Health Sciences, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
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- Ethiopian Public Health Institute, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
- Department of Microbial, Cellular and Molecular Biology, College of Natural and Computational Sciences, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
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- Ethiopian Public Health Institute, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
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- Ethiopian Public Health Institute, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
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- Ethiopian Public Health Institute, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
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- St. Paul's Hospital Millennium Medical College, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
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- Ethiopian Public Health Institute, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
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- Ethiopian Public Health Institute, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
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- Department of Medical Laboratory Sciences, College of Health Sciences, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
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- Department of Medical Laboratory Sciences, College of Health Sciences, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
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Devi KR, Pradhan J, Bhutia R, Dadul P, Sarkar A, Gohain N, Narain K. Molecular diversity of Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex in Sikkim, India and prediction of dominant spoligotypes using artificial intelligence. Sci Rep 2021; 11:7365. [PMID: 33795751 PMCID: PMC8016865 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-86626-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/02/2020] [Accepted: 03/12/2021] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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In India, tuberculosis is an enormous public health problem. This study provides the first description of molecular diversity of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex (MTBC) from Sikkim, India. A total of 399 Acid Fast Bacilli sputum positive samples were cultured on Lőwenstein-Jensen media and genetic characterisation was done by spoligotyping and 24-loci MIRU-VNTR typing. Spoligotyping revealed the occurrence of 58 different spoligotypes. Beijing spoligotype was the most dominant type constituting 62.41% of the total isolates and was associated with Multiple Drug Resistance. Minimum Spanning tree analysis of 249 Beijing strains based on 24-loci MIRU-VNTR analysis identified 12 clonal complexes (Single Locus Variants). The principal component analysis was used to visualise possible grouping of MTBC isolates from Sikkim belonging to major spoligotypes using 24-MIRU VNTR profiles. Artificial intelligence-based machine learning (ML) methods such as Random Forests (RF), Support Vector Machines (SVM) and Artificial Neural Networks (ANN) were used to predict dominant spoligotypes of MTBC using MIRU-VNTR data. K-fold cross-validation and validation using unseen testing data set revealed high accuracy of ANN, RF, and SVM for predicting Beijing, CAS1_Delhi, and T1 Spoligotypes (93-99%). However, prediction using the external new validation data set revealed that the RF model was more accurate than SVM and ANN.
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- Kangjam Rekha Devi
- grid.420069.90000 0004 1803 0080N.E. Region, Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR)-Regional Medical Research Centre, Post Box #105, Dibrugarh, Assam 786 001 India
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- National Tuberculosis Elimination Programme (NTEP), Gangtok, Sikkim India
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- National Tuberculosis Elimination Programme (NTEP), Gangtok, Sikkim India
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- Department of Health Care, Human Services and Family Welfare, State Tuberculosis Control Society, Gangtok, Sikkim India
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- grid.420069.90000 0004 1803 0080N.E. Region, Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR)-Regional Medical Research Centre, Post Box #105, Dibrugarh, Assam 786 001 India
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- grid.420069.90000 0004 1803 0080N.E. Region, Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR)-Regional Medical Research Centre, Post Box #105, Dibrugarh, Assam 786 001 India
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- grid.420069.90000 0004 1803 0080N.E. Region, Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR)-Regional Medical Research Centre, Post Box #105, Dibrugarh, Assam 786 001 India
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Sivakumar S, Chandramohan Y, Kathamuthu GR, Sekar G, Kandhasamy D, Padmanaban V, Hissar S, Tripathy SP, Bethunaickan R, Dhanaraj B, Babu S, Ranganathan UD. The recent trend in mycobacterial strain diversity among extra pulmonary lymph node tuberculosis and their association with drug resistance and the host immunological response in South India. BMC Infect Dis 2020; 20:894. [PMID: 33243148 PMCID: PMC7690019 DOI: 10.1186/s12879-020-05597-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/19/2020] [Accepted: 11/08/2020] [Indexed: 11/11/2022] Open
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Background Tuberculosis (TB) though primarily affects the lungs it may also affect the other parts of the body and referred as extra pulmonary (EPTB). This study is focused on understanding the genetic diversity and molecular epidemiology of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M.tb) among tuberculous lymphadenitis (TBL), a form of EPTB patients identified in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. Methods The genetic diversity was identified by performing spoligotyping on the M.tb clinical isolates that were recovered from lymph node samples. A total of 71 M.tb isolates were recovered from extra pulmonary lymph node samples and subjected to Drug susceptibility testing and spoligotyping was carried out. In addition, immunological characterization from blood of same individuals from whom M.tb was isolated was carried out between the two major lineages groups East African Indian 3 (EAI3) and non-EAI3 strains by ELISA. The results of spoligotyping patterns were compared with the world Spoligotyping Database of Institute Pasteur de Guadeloupe (SpolDB4). Results We found 41 spoligotype patterns and their associated lineages. Out of 41 spoligotype pattern, only 22 patterns are available in the spoldB4 database with Spoligotype international Type (SIT) number and remaining patterns were orphan strains without SIT number. The most predominant spoligotype lineage that was found in lymph node sample in this region of India was EAI (36), followed by central Asian strain (CAS) (6), T1 (5), Beijing (3), Latin American & Mediterranean (LAM) (2), U (1), X2 (1) and orphan (22). In addition to EAI, CAS and Beijing, our study identified the presence of orphan and unique spoligotyping patterns in Chennai region. We observed six drug resistant isolates. Out of six drug resistant isolates, four were resistant to isoniazid drug and associated with EAI family. Moreover, we observed increased levels of type 2 and type 17 cytokine profiles between EAI3 and non-EAI family, infected individuals. Conclusions The study confirms that EAI lineage to be the most predominant lineages in EPTB patients with lymphadenitis and were found to have increased type 1 and type 17 proinflammatory cytokine profiles. Supplementary Information The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s12879-020-05597-0.
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- Shanmugam Sivakumar
- Department of Bacteriology, National Institute for Research in Tuberculosis, Chetpet, Chennai, 600 031, India
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- Department of Immunology, National Institute for Research in Tuberculosis, Chetpet, Chennai, 600 031, India
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- National Institute of Health -International Center for Excellence in Research - National Institute for Research in Tuberculosis, Chennai, India
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- Department of Bacteriology, National Institute for Research in Tuberculosis, Chetpet, Chennai, 600 031, India
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- Department of Bacteriology, National Institute for Research in Tuberculosis, Chetpet, Chennai, 600 031, India
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- Department of Immunology, National Institute for Research in Tuberculosis, Chetpet, Chennai, 600 031, India
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- Department of Clinical Health Research, National Institute for Research in Tuberculosis, Chetpet, Chennai, 600 031, India
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- National Institute for Research in Tuberculosis, Chetpet, Chennai, 600 031, India
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- Department of Immunology, National Institute for Research in Tuberculosis, Chetpet, Chennai, 600 031, India
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- Department of Clinical Health Research, National Institute for Research in Tuberculosis, Chetpet, Chennai, 600 031, India
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- National Institute of Health -International Center for Excellence in Research - National Institute for Research in Tuberculosis, Chennai, India
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- Department of Immunology, National Institute for Research in Tuberculosis, Chetpet, Chennai, 600 031, India.
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Rizvi SMS, Tarafder S, Anwar S, Perdigão J, Johora FT, Sattar H, Kamal SMM. Circulating strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis: 24 loci MIRU-VNTR analysis in Bangladesh. INFECTION GENETICS AND EVOLUTION 2020; 86:104634. [PMID: 33186780 DOI: 10.1016/j.meegid.2020.104634] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/03/2020] [Revised: 11/06/2020] [Accepted: 11/07/2020] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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Bangladesh is among the high burden countries for tuberculosis (TB) and multidrug resistant TB (MDR-TB). As the genetic diversity and distinct phylogeographic distribution of Mycobacterium tuberculosis are responsible for regional differences in drug resistance, this cross sectional study was conducted to identify the circulating M. tuberculosis strains belonging to different lineages among pulmonary tuberculosis and, to investigate the contribution of distinct M. tuberculosis lineages to rifampicin resistant (RR) and rifampicin sensitive (RS) TB. A total of 40 RR and 20 RS isolates were enrolled in this study, all of which confirmed as M. tuberculosis by MPT 64 antigen detection. Furthermore, all isolates were genotyped by 24 loci Mycobacterial Interspersed Repetitive Units-Variable Number of Tandem Repeats (MIRU-VNTR), thus comprising the first study to employ this approach in Bangladesh. Beijing was the predominant lineage (26.8%) followed by EAI (23.2%), Delhi/CAS (16.1%), H37Rv (8.9%), Haarlem (7.1%), LAM (5.4%), Cameroon (3.6%) and a NEW-1 (1.8%). Four (7.1%) isolates remained as unidentified. Beijing strains were the significantly predominant (36.8%; p = 0.0135) among the RR isolates in comparison with other strains whereas EAI was the predominant (38.8%) lineage among RS isolates. Also, approximately 13% RR isolates showed genotypic resistance against fluoroquinolones by LPA and, hence, classed as pre-XDR TB albeit no specific lineage was found associated with these latter strains. A low transmission rate (10.5%) and high genetic diversity was detected in this setting with all the clustered strains herein identified belonging to the Beijing lineage. This study highlights 24 loci MIRU-VNTR analysis as a powerful tool for genotyping of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in this setting as it shows a high discriminatory index (0.81).
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- S M Shahriar Rizvi
- Communicable Disease Control (CDC), Directorate General of Health Services, Mohakhali, Dhaka 1212, Bangladesh.
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- Department of Microbiology & Immunology, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University, Shahbag, Dhaka, Bangladesh
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- Department of Microbiology & Immunology, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University, Shahbag, Dhaka, Bangladesh
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- Research Institute for Medicines (iMed.ULisboa), Faculdade de Farmácia, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal
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- Department of Microbiology, East West Medical College, Dhaka, Bangladesh
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- Department of Microbiology & Immunology, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University, Shahbag, Dhaka, Bangladesh
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Spoligotype Diversity of Mycobacterium tuberculosis over Two Decades from Tiruvallur, South India. Int J Microbiol 2020; 2020:8841512. [PMID: 33110429 PMCID: PMC7582057 DOI: 10.1155/2020/8841512] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/23/2020] [Accepted: 09/30/2020] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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Geographically, most tuberculosis (TB) cases in 2018 were reported from India. This TB burden is compounded by MDR-TB and XDR-TB. The strategies for the management and control of TB in the community depend on an understanding of the mode of spread of the different strains of TB isolates in the community. To determine the distribution and trends of M. tb strains over the time period in the community due to treatment, we carried out the present study on changes over two decades. Design/Methods. A total of 1218 M. tb isolates (year: 2001-2018) from Tiruvallur, India, were genotyped by spoligotyping after DNA extraction and subjected to anti-TB drug susceptibility testing for the first-line anti-TB drugs. Results. On analysis with the SpolDB4 database, majority (2001-2003: 53.32% and 2015-2018: 46.3%) of the isolates belonged to East African Indian (EAI) lineage, and the orphans designated in comparison to SpolDB4 stood 33% among 2001-2003 strain collection and 46.3% among 2015-2018 strain collection. 10.2% (2001-2003) and 9.26% (2015 to 2018) of isolates were monoresistant to isoniazid (H). MDR strains were less common among EAI strains (3.2%) compared to non-EAI strains (10.32%). Conclusions. EAI is the most predominant lineage in Tiruvallur, despite the presence of highly transmissible lineages like Beijing for the last two decades. The prevalence of MDR-TB is below the national average of 2-3% among the new TB cases in the last two decades. The reason can be attributed to the well-established nature of the locally circulating strains in this region which are not associated with drug resistance.
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Shah Y, Poudel A, Maharjan B, Thapa J, Yamaguchi T, Diab HM, Pandey BD, Solo E, Isoda N, Suzuki Y, Nakajima C. Genetic diversity of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Central Asian Strain isolates from Nepal and comparison with neighboring countries. Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg 2020; 113:203-211. [PMID: 30668857 DOI: 10.1093/trstmh/try136] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/11/2018] [Revised: 10/31/2018] [Accepted: 12/04/2018] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) is an emerging threat for successful tuberculosis control worldwide. Central Asian Strain (CAS) has been reported as one of the dominant families contributing to MDR-TB in South Asia including Nepal, India and Pakistan. The aim of this study was to better understand the genetic characteristics of MDR-TB CAS family isolates circulating in Nepal and compare the results with neighboring countries. METHODS A total of 145 MDR-TB CAS family isolates collected in Nepal from 2008 to 2013 were analyzed by spoligotyping and mycobacterial interspersed repetitive units-variable number of tandem repeats (MIRU-VNTR) analysis. In addition, we compared these data with published data from India and Pakistan to investigate a possible epidemiological link via construction of a minimum spanning tree (MST). RESULTS Spoligotyping analysis exhibited CAS1_Delhi SIT26 (n=60) as the predominant lineage among the MDR-TB CAS family in all three countries. However, the combined analysis with spoligotyping and MIRU-VNTR further discriminated 60 isolates into 49 different types and 5 clusters. Each cluster was composed of 14 isolates with a clustering rate of 23.3%, suggesting ongoing transmissions. Based on MST data from neighboring countries, we elucidated an evolutionary relationship between the two countries, Nepal and India, which could be explained by their open border. CONCLUSION This study identified the evolutionary relationships among MDR-TB CAS1_Delhi subfamily isolates from Nepal and those from neighboring countries.
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- Yogendra Shah
- National Zoonoses and Food Hygiene Research Centre, Kathmandu, Nepal
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- Chitwan Medical College and Teaching Hospital, Department of Microbiology, Bharatpur, Chitwan, Nepal
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- German Nepal Tuberculosis Project, Nepal anti-Tuberculosis association/GENETUP, Kalimati, Kathmandu, Nepal.,Hokkaido University Research Center for Zoonosis Control, Sapporo, Japan
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- Hokkaido University Research Center for Zoonosis Control, Sapporo, Japan
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- Hokkaido University Research Center for Zoonosis Control, Sapporo, Japan
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- Department of Animal Hygiene, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, South Valley University, Qena, Egypt
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- Sukraraj Tropical and Infectious Disease Hospital, Teku, Kathmandu, Nepal.,Everest International Clinic and Research Center, Kathmandu, Nepal
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- Hokkaido University Research Center for Zoonosis Control, Sapporo, Japan.,University Teaching Hospital, Lusaka, Zambia
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- Hokkaido University Research Center for Zoonosis Control, Sapporo, Japan.,Hokkaido University, GI-CoRE Global Station for Zoonosis Control, Sapporo, Japan
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- Hokkaido University Research Center for Zoonosis Control, Sapporo, Japan.,Hokkaido University, GI-CoRE Global Station for Zoonosis Control, Sapporo, Japan
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- Hokkaido University Research Center for Zoonosis Control, Sapporo, Japan.,Hokkaido University, GI-CoRE Global Station for Zoonosis Control, Sapporo, Japan
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Arora J, Suresh N, Porwal C, Pandey P, Pande JN, Singh UB. Genotyping Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates with few copies of IS6110: Value of additional genetic markers. INFECTION GENETICS AND EVOLUTION 2020; 81:104230. [PMID: 32035976 DOI: 10.1016/j.meegid.2020.104230] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/20/2019] [Revised: 01/22/2020] [Accepted: 01/28/2020] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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PURPOSE IS6110 restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) analysis is widely used for molecular epidemiological studies of tuberculosis. Role of spoligotyping and Fluorescent Amplified Fragment Length Polymorphism (FAFLP) was studied in low-copy number IS6110 strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex (Mtbc). METHODS The study isolates included 70 strains of Mtbc collected from different regions of India. IS6110 restriction fragment, spoligotyping and FAFLP were performed for genotypic analysis. RESULTS A single copy of IS6110 was found in 30% of isolates with 90.5% of them harboring characteristic 1.5-Kb IS6110 restriction fragment.IS6110RFLP identified 51 different types, FAFLP 41 types, and spoligotyping 31 types. Combination of all three techniques identified 67 different types.IS6110 RFLP analysis was found sensitive for genotyping isolates with more than one copy of IS6110 (Hunter Gaston Discriminatory Index (HGDI-1) while, neither spoligotyping (HGI-0.89) nor FAFLP (HGDI-0.92) or their combinations were as good. The discriminatory power of spoligotyping (HGDI- 0.89) in isolates with a single copy of IS6110 was higher than IS6110-RFLP.Clustering was reduced to 67% using spoligotyping and to 38% with FAFLP. CONCLUSION Combination of FAFLP and Spoligotyping may prove to be valuable in studying the epidemiology of M. tuberculosis strains harboring few copies of IS6110 element.
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- Jyoti Arora
- Department of Microbiology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences,New Delhi, India
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- Department of Microbiology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences,New Delhi, India
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- Department of Microbiology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences,New Delhi, India
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- Department of Microbiology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences,New Delhi, India
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- Department of Microbiology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences,New Delhi, India.
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An ancestral genomic locus in Mycobacterium tuberculosis clinical isolates from India hints the genetic link with Mycobacterium canettii. Int Microbiol 2020; 23:397-404. [PMID: 31898033 DOI: 10.1007/s10123-019-00113-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/15/2019] [Revised: 11/06/2019] [Accepted: 12/05/2019] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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BACKGROUND Tuberculosis remains a worldwide public health emergency. To better understand M. tuberculosis and to identify genomic variations characteristic to the Indian clinical isolates by a low-cost method, a genomic subtractive hybridization between M. tuberculosis H37Rv and a clinical isolate from South India was performed. RESULTS This revealed a novel 0.4-kb subtractive fragment which was used as a handle to pull out a 4.5-kb genomic region characteristic to the clinical isolate and was absent in H37Rv. On further studies, this 4.5-kb region was found to be present in 91% of the M. tuberculosis clinical isolates screened from Kerala, a state in South India. Interestingly, this novel region has 99% identity (with 100% query coverage) with genomic regions of M. canettii. DISCUSSION The present study hypothesizes that this locus was present in the recent common environmental ancestor of mycobacteria, retained to the maximum extent in M. canettii and ancestral isolates of M. tuberculosis, and later deleted in other modern lineages of M. tuberculosis. Thus, this region may serve as one of the links between the pathogenic mycobacteria and the environmental species. We also propose that the Indian isolates of M. tuberculosis might be closely related to the putative progenitor M. prototuberculosis with respect to this locus. More studies on other genomic loci from different strains of M. tuberculosis are required to establish more links in this direction.
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Poonawala H, Kumar N, Peacock SJ. A review of published spoligotype data indicates the diversity of Mycobacterium tuberculosis from India is under-represented in global databases. INFECTION GENETICS AND EVOLUTION 2019; 78:104072. [PMID: 31618692 DOI: 10.1016/j.meegid.2019.104072] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/20/2019] [Revised: 10/07/2019] [Accepted: 10/11/2019] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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BACKGROUND Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTBC) lineages differ in clinical presentation, virulence, transmission, drug resistance and immunological responses. Despite having the largest burden of tuberculosis (TB) in the world, strains from India are underrepresented in international databases. We reviewed published spoligotype data to determine the distribution and diversity of MTBC lineages in India. METHODS A Pubmed/MEDLINE search identified 34 M. tuberculosis spoligotyping studies from India. Spoligotype patterns were extracted and the Spoligotype International Type (SIT) number, sub-lineage and lineage determined. Minimum Spanning Trees were used to determine relationships between patterns. RESULTS We identified 1528 spoligotype patterns distributed across 8300 isolates; 6733 isolates belonged to 472 SITs, with 53% of all isolates belonging to 12 SITs with at least 100 isolates each. Lineage 1 and Lineage 3 made up 67% of all isolates, although a lineage could not be assigned for 16% of isolates. Lineage 1 isolates were most common in Southern, Western and Eastern India, and Lineage 3 was most common in Northern and Central India. The RULE, CBN and KBBN lineage prediction algorithms from the TB-lineage tools performed variably, with the correct lineage predicted correctly for only 64% of patterns with known lineage. Using a consensus definition, 64% of the 1359 isolates with unknown lineage were assigned to Lineage 1, and 14% each were assigned to Lineages 3 and 4. With these lineage assignments, 80% of all isolates belonged to either Lineage 1 or Lineage 3. CONCLUSION Our findings indicate significant M. tuberculosis diversity in India. The documentation of 1056 orphan and unreported patterns indicate that this diversity is under-represented in global databases.
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- Husain Poonawala
- National Institute for Research in Tuberculosis, Chetpet, Chennai 600031, India; Institute of Public Health, Banashankari, Bangalore 560070, India.
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- Department of Medicine, University of Cambridge, Hills Rd, Cambridge CB2 0QQ, United Kingdom
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- Department of Medicine, University of Cambridge, Hills Rd, Cambridge CB2 0QQ, United Kingdom.
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Prakash R, Gupta R, Sharma P, Jain S, Chauhan DS, Katoch VM, Tiwari PK. Genotypic diversity of Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates from North-Central Indian population. Pathog Glob Health 2019; 113:39-48. [PMID: 30821646 DOI: 10.1080/20477724.2019.1583881] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Different strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) are known to have different epidemiological and clinical characteristics. Some of them are widely distributed and associated with drug resistance, whereas others are locally predominated. Molecular epidemiological investigations have always been beneficial in identifying new strains and studying their transmission dynamics. Sahariya a primitive tribe of North Madhya Pradesh, India, has already been reported to have high prevalence of tuberculosis (TB) than their non-tribal neighbours. However, the information about MTB genotypes prevalent in Sahariya tribe and their non-tribal neighbours is not available. METHODS A total of 214 clinical isolates representing Sahariya tribe and non-tribes were analyzed by spoligotyping and MIRU-VNTR typing. RESULTS The EAI3_IND/SIT11 genotype was observed as major genotype in Sahariya tribe followed by CAS1_Delhi/SIT26 genotype. A 3.04 fold higher risk of getting TB with EAI3_IND/SIT11 genotype was observed in Sahariya as compared to the non-tribal population. The EAI_IND/SIT11 genotype also found to have more number of MDR-TB cases in Sahariya as well as true and possible transmission links. In Sahariya tribe, 3 clusters (6 isolates) reflected true transmission links, whereas 8 clusters consisted of 26 isolates revealed possible transmission links within the same geographical location or nearby houses. CONCLUSION The present study highlighted the predominance of EAI3_IND/SIT11 genotype in Sahariya tribe followed by CAS1_Delhi/SIT26 genotype. Combined approach of MIRU-VNTR typing and spoligotyping was observed more favourable in discrimination of MTB genotypes. Further, longitudinal studies using whole genome sequencing can provide more insights into genetic diversity, drug resistance and transmission dynamics of these prevalent genotypes.
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- Ravi Prakash
- a Centre for Genomics, Molecular and Human Genetics , Jiwaji University , Gwalior , India.,b Department of Microbiology and Molecular Biology , National JALMA Institute for Leprosy and other Mycobacterial Diseases , Agra , India.,c Key Laboratory of Medical Molecular Virology , Fudan University , Shanghai , China
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- a Centre for Genomics, Molecular and Human Genetics , Jiwaji University , Gwalior , India
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- b Department of Microbiology and Molecular Biology , National JALMA Institute for Leprosy and other Mycobacterial Diseases , Agra , India
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- d Revised National Tuberculosis Control Programme , District Hospital , Sheopur , India
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- b Department of Microbiology and Molecular Biology , National JALMA Institute for Leprosy and other Mycobacterial Diseases , Agra , India
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- e Former Secretary, Department of Health Research, Govt. of India and Former Director General , Indian Council of Medical Research , Ansari Nagar , New Delhi , India.,f Rajasthan University of Health Sciences , Jaipur , India
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- a Centre for Genomics, Molecular and Human Genetics , Jiwaji University , Gwalior , India
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Chawla K, Kumar A, Shenoy VP, Chauhan DS, Sharma P. Genetic diversity of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in south coastal Karnataka, India, using spoligotyping. Indian J Med Res 2018; 147:278-286. [PMID: 29923517 PMCID: PMC6022373 DOI: 10.4103/ijmr.ijmr_2026_16] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/03/2022] Open
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Background & objectives: Despite high occurrence of tuberculosis in India very little information is available about the genetic diversity of Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates prevailing in coastal Karnataka, India. Thus, the present study was undertaken to explore the genetic biodiversity of M. tuberculosis isolates prevailing in south coastal region of Karnataka (Udupi District), India. Methods: A total of 111 Mycobacterial isolates were cultured in Lowenstein Jensen (LJ) medium and after obtaining growth, DNA was extracted and spoligotyping was performed. SITVIT WEB database was used to locate families of spoligotypes. Results: On analyzing the hybridization results of all 111 isolates on SITVIT WEB database 57 (51.35%) isolates were clustered into 11 Spoligotype International Types (SIT). The largest cluster of 14 (12.61%) isolates was SIT-48 (EAI1-SOM), followed by SIT-1942 (CAS1-Delhi) with 11 isolates (9.9%) and SIT-11 with seven (6.30%). Moreover, 23 isolates (20.72%) had unique spoligotypes and 31 (27.92%) were orphans. Spotclust analysis revealed that majority (67%) of orphan isolates were variants of CAS (37%) and EAI-5 (34%). Interpretation & conclusions: The present study revealed high biodiversity among the circulating isolates of M. tuberculosis in this region with the presence of mixed genotypes earlier reported from north and south India along with certain new genotypes with unique SITs. The study highlights the need for further longitudinal studies to explore the genetic diversity and to understand the transmission dynamics of prevailing isolates.
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- Kiran Chawla
- Department of Microbiology, Kasturba Medical College, MAHE, Manipal, India
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- Department of Microbiology, Kasturba Medical College, MAHE, Manipal, India
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- Department of Microbiology & Molecular Biology, ICMR-National JALMA Institute for Leprosy & other Mycobacterial Diseases, Agra, India
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- Department of Microbiology & Molecular Biology, ICMR-National JALMA Institute for Leprosy & other Mycobacterial Diseases, Agra, India
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Maharjan B, Nakajima C, Isoda N, Thapa J, Poudel A, Shah Y, Yamaguchi T, Shrestha B, Hoffmann H, Avsar K, Shrestha A, Gordon SV, Suzuki Y. Genetic diversity and distribution dynamics of multidrug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates in Nepal. Sci Rep 2018; 8:16634. [PMID: 30413747 PMCID: PMC6226479 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-018-34306-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/24/2018] [Accepted: 10/11/2018] [Indexed: 01/06/2023] Open
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Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) is an emerging public health problem in Nepal. Despite the implementation of a successful TB control program in Nepal, notifications of MDR-TB are increasing, yet the reasons are unknown. The objective of this study was to understand the genetic diversity and epidemiological characteristics of MDR-Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) isolates in Nepal. We isolated and genotyped 498 MDR-MTB isolates collected from April 2009 to March 2013 and analyzed the patients' background information. Our results showed that the lineage 2 (Beijing family) was the most predominant lineage (n = 241; 48.4%), followed by lineage 3 (n = 153, 30.7%). Lineage 4 was the third most prevalent (n = 73, 14.5%) followed by lineage 1 (n = 32, 6.4%). The lineages were significantly associated with geographic region, ethnic group, age and sex of patients. The Beijing genotype was found to have an important role in transmitting MDR-TB in Nepal and was significantly associated with the eastern region, mongoloid ethnic group and younger age group. We conclude that early diagnosis and treatment including molecular-epidemiological surveillance of MDR-TB cases will help to control transmission of MDR-TB in Nepal.
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- Bhagwan Maharjan
- German Nepal TB Project (GENETUP/NATA), Kathmandu, Nepal.,Division of Bioresources, Hokkaido University, Research Center for Zoonosis Control, Hokkaido, Japan
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- Division of Bioresources, Hokkaido University, Research Center for Zoonosis Control, Hokkaido, Japan.,Global Institution for Collaborative Research and Education (GI-CoRE), Hokkaido University, Hokkaido, Japan
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- Global Institution for Collaborative Research and Education (GI-CoRE), Hokkaido University, Hokkaido, Japan.,Unit of Risk Analysis and Management, Research Center for Zoonosis Control, Hokkaido, Japan
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- Division of Bioresources, Hokkaido University, Research Center for Zoonosis Control, Hokkaido, Japan
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- Department of Microbiology, Chitwan Medical College Teaching Hospital, Chitwan, Nepal
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- Division of Bioresources, Hokkaido University, Research Center for Zoonosis Control, Hokkaido, Japan
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- Division of Bioresources, Hokkaido University, Research Center for Zoonosis Control, Hokkaido, Japan
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- WHO-Supranational Reference Laboratory of Tuberculosis, Munich, Gauting, Germany.,KuratoriumTuberkulose in der Welt e.V, München-Gauting, Germany
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- KuratoriumTuberkulose in der Welt e.V, München-Gauting, Germany.,Asklepios Klinik, Gauting, Germany
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- National Tuberculosis Center, Thimi, Bhaktapur, Nepal.,World Health Organization, Kathmandu, Nepal
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- Global Institution for Collaborative Research and Education (GI-CoRE), Hokkaido University, Hokkaido, Japan.,UCD School of Veterinary Medicine, University College Dublin, Dublin, D04 W6F6, Ireland
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- Division of Bioresources, Hokkaido University, Research Center for Zoonosis Control, Hokkaido, Japan. .,Global Institution for Collaborative Research and Education (GI-CoRE), Hokkaido University, Hokkaido, Japan.
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Varma-Basil M, Nair D. Molecular epidemiology of tuberculosis: Opportunities & challenges in disease control. Indian J Med Res 2017; 146:11-14. [PMID: 29168455 PMCID: PMC5719594 DOI: 10.4103/ijmr.ijmr_941_17] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022] Open
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- Mandira Varma-Basil
- Department of Microbiology, Vallabhbhai Patel Chest Institute, University of Delhi, New Delhi 110 007, India
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- Department of Microbiology, Vardhman Mahavir Medical College & Safdarjung Hospital, New Delhi 110 007, India
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Dhatwalia SK, Yadav R, Behera D, Kaur H, Kumar M, Sethi S. High proportion of modern genotypes of M. tuberculosis and their affinity with drug resistance in northern region of India. J Glob Antimicrob Resist 2017; 10:84-87. [PMID: 28729202 DOI: 10.1016/j.jgar.2017.04.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/07/2016] [Revised: 11/23/2016] [Accepted: 04/12/2017] [Indexed: 10/19/2022] Open
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OBJECTIVES Comparative genomics on the basis of TbD1 deletion has differentiated the members of Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex (MTC) in two major genogroups. They exhibit differential distribution and virulence potential. The present study was carried out to see the proportion of these genogroups and their association with drug resistance. METHODS The drug resistance pattern of 205 culture positive cases of M. tuberculosis and their relation with TbD1 deletion was analysed from the tertiary care centre. Overall proportion of genotypes (TbD1- and Tbd1+) and their association with drug resistance was also observed from the various studies from India. RESULTS Our study reports that 85.4% of the isolates of M. tuberculosis were modern genotypes (TbD1-) and rest of 14.6% were ancient genotypes (TbD1+). 37 cases were of multiple drug resistant-TB (MDR-TB), 35 of them belongs to modern genogrop and rest of (2) were in ancient genogroup (p=0.12). Overall pooled estimate of proportion of modern genotype is 75.5% (CI 95%, 73.03-77.87) and 24.55% (CI 95%, 22.13-26.97) for ancient genotypes from the studies carried out in India. Modern genotypes were more rarely drug sensitive phenotypes with a relative risk (RR) of 0.89 (CI 95%, 0.74-1.07) while MDR cases were more in this group with an odds ratio (OR) of 2.27 (CI 95%, 0-1.07). CONCLUSIONS This study demonstrates a higher proportion of modern genotypes in our region/India; which are more likely to be associated with drug resistance. Future, epidemiological/in vitro studies are required to ascertain the relationship between genotypes and their virulence potential.
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- Sunil Kumar Dhatwalia
- Department of Medical Microbiology, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER), Chandigarh, India
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- Department of Medical Microbiology, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER), Chandigarh, India
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- Department of Pulmonary Medicine, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER), Chandigarh, India
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- Department of Medical Microbiology, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER), Chandigarh, India
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- Department of Biophysics, Pankab University, Chandigarh, India
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- Department of Medical Microbiology, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER), Chandigarh, India.
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Chandramuki A, Khanna N, Shashkina E, Kurepina N, Mathema B, Kreiswirth BN, Venkataswamy MM. Genotypic characterisation of Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates from tuberculous meningitis patients at a tertiary neurocare centre in Southern India. Indian J Med Microbiol 2017; 35:211-215. [PMID: 28681808 DOI: 10.4103/ijmm.ijmm_16_166] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/04/2022]
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AIMS Specific genotypes of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) have been reported to cause outbreaks of pulmonary tuberculosis (TB) in geographical areas that are endemic to TB. However, since there is little epidemiological evidence on the association of particular genotypes that cause tuberculous meningitis (TBM), we sought to investigate the association of specific MTB strains with infection of the central nervous system (CNS). MATERIALS AND METHODS We carried out a genetic characterisation of 89 MTB isolates from TBM patients at a Southern Indian tertiary neurocare centre and compared the genotypes with strains of pulmonary TB isolated from Indian immigrants in New York City. We applied the standard methods of genotyping of MTB, namely, IS6110-based restriction fragment length polymorphism and spoligotyping for strain identification, along with principal genetic grouping and single-nucleotide polymorphism cluster analysis. RESULTS The analysis revealed a high-level of diversity amongst the strain population. The genotypes of the isolates from TBM patients paralleled the pulmonary TB strain population recovered from the Indian immigrants in NYC. CONCLUSIONS We conclude that there is no apparent association between genotypes of MTB and propensity to infect CNS tissue.
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- Akepati Chandramuki
- Department of Neuromicrobiology, National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
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- Department of Neuromicrobiology, National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
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- Public Health Research Institute TB Center, Newark, New Jersey 07103, USA
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- Public Health Research Institute TB Center, Newark, New Jersey 07103, USA
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- Public Health Research Institute TB Center, Newark, New Jersey 07103, USA
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- Public Health Research Institute TB Center, Newark, New Jersey 07103, USA
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- Department of Neuromicrobiology, National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
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Shah Y, Maharjan B, Thapa J, Poudel A, Diab HM, Pandey BD, Solo ES, Isoda N, Suzuki Y, Nakajima C. High diversity of multidrug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis Central Asian Strain isolates in Nepal. Int J Infect Dis 2017. [PMID: 28627432 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijid.2017.06.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/19/2022] Open
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OBJECTIVES Tuberculosis (TB) caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) poses a major public health problem in Nepal. Although it has been reported as one of the dominant genotypes of MTB in Nepal, little information on the Central Asian Strain (CAS) family is available, especially isolates related to multidrug resistance (MDR) cases. This study aimed to elucidate the genetic and epidemiological characteristics of MDR CAS isolates in Nepal. METHODS A total of 145 MDR CAS isolates collected in Nepal from 2008 to 2013 were characterized by spoligotyping, mycobacterial interspersed repetitive unit-variable number tandem repeat (MIRU-VNTR) analysis, and drug resistance-associated gene sequencing. RESULTS Spoligotyping analysis showed CAS1_Delhi SIT26 as predominant (60/145, 41.4%). However, by combining spoligotyping and MIRU-VNTR typing, it was possible to successfully discriminate all 145 isolates into 116 different types including 18 clusters with 47 isolates (clustering rate 32.4%). About a half of these clustered isolates shared the same genetic and geographical characteristics with other isolates in each cluster, and some of them shared rare point mutations in rpoB that are thought to be associated with rifampicin resistance. CONCLUSIONS Although the data obtained show little evidence that large outbreaks of MDR-TB caused by the CAS family have occurred in Nepal, they strongly suggest several MDR-MTB transmission cases.
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- Yogendra Shah
- Hokkaido University Research Center for Zoonosis Control, Sapporo, Japan
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- Hokkaido University Research Center for Zoonosis Control, Sapporo, Japan; German Nepal Tuberculosis Project, Nepal Anti-Tuberculosis Association/GENETUP, Kalimati, Kathmandu, Nepal
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- Hokkaido University Research Center for Zoonosis Control, Sapporo, Japan
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- Chitwan Medical College Teaching Hospital, Department of Microbiology, Bharatpur, Chitwan, Nepal
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- Department of Animal Hygiene, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, South Valley University, Qena, Egypt
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- Leprosy Control Division, Department of Health Services, Ministry of Health, Kathmandu, Nepal; Everest International Clinic and Research Center, Kathmandu, Nepal
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- Hokkaido University Research Center for Zoonosis Control, Sapporo, Japan; University Teaching Hospital, University of Zambia, Lusaka, Zambia
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- Hokkaido University Research Center for Zoonosis Control, Sapporo, Japan; Hokkaido University, GI-CoRE Global Station for Zoonosis Control, Sapporo, Japan
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- Hokkaido University Research Center for Zoonosis Control, Sapporo, Japan; Hokkaido University, GI-CoRE Global Station for Zoonosis Control, Sapporo, Japan
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- Hokkaido University Research Center for Zoonosis Control, Sapporo, Japan; Hokkaido University, GI-CoRE Global Station for Zoonosis Control, Sapporo, Japan.
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Desikan P, Chauhan DS, Sharma P, Panwalkar N, Chourey M, Patidar ML, Yadav P, Chandrasekaran V, Ohri BS. Genetic diversity of Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates from central India. Indian J Med Res 2017; 143:481-6. [PMID: 27377505 PMCID: PMC4928555 DOI: 10.4103/0971-5916.184287] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/03/2022] Open
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Background & objectives: There is a paucity of data available on genetic biodiversity of Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates from central India. The present study was carried out on isolates of M. tuberculosis cultured from diagnostic clinical samples of patients from Bhopal, central India, using spoligotyping as a method of molecular typing. Methods: DNA was extracted from 340 isolates of M. tuberculosis from culture, confirmed as M. tuberculosis by molecular and biochemical methods and subjected to spoligotyping. The results were compared with the international SITVIT2 database. Results: Sixty five different spoligo international type (SIT) patterns were observed. A total of 239 (70.3%) isolates could be clustered into 25 SITs. The Central Asian (CAS) and East African Indian (EAI) families were found to be the two major circulating families in this region. SIT26/CAS1_DEL was identified as the most predominant type, followed by SIT11/EAI3_IND and SIT288/CAS2. Forty (11.8%) unique (non-clustered) and 61 (17.9%) orphan isolates were identified in the study. There was no significant association of clustering with clinical and demographic characteristics of patients. Interpretation & conclusions: Well established SITs were found to be predominant in our study. SIT26/CAS1_DEL was the most predominant type. However, the occurrence of a substantial number of orphan isolates may indicate the presence of active spatial and temporal evolutionary dynamics within the isolates of M. tuberculosis.
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- Prabha Desikan
- Bhopal Memorial Hospital & Research Centre (ICMR), Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India
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- National JALMA Institute of Leprosy & Other Mycobacterial Diseases (ICMR), Agra, India
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- National JALMA Institute of Leprosy & Other Mycobacterial Diseases (ICMR), Agra, India
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- Bhopal Memorial Hospital & Research Centre (ICMR), Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India
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- Bhopal Memorial Hospital & Research Centre (ICMR), Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India
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- Bhopal Memorial Hospital & Research Centre (ICMR), Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India
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- National JALMA Institute of Leprosy & Other Mycobacterial Diseases (ICMR), Agra, India
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- National Institute for Research in Tuberculosis (ICMR), Chennai, India
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- State TB Office, Directorate of Health Services, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India
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Bashir G, Wani T, Sharma P, Katoch VM, Lone R, Shah A, Katoch K, Kakru DK, Chauhan DS. Predominance of Central Asian and European families among Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates in Kashmir Valley, India. Indian J Tuberc 2017; 64:302-308. [PMID: 28941853 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijtb.2017.05.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/08/2016] [Revised: 04/03/2017] [Accepted: 05/11/2017] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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BACKGROUND As there are no data available regarding the strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis circulating in Kashmir Valley, India, the current study aimed at describing the genetic diversity of M. tuberculosis strains in this region, by spoligotyping and 12-locus-based MIRU-VNTR typing (Mycobacterial Interspersed Repetitive Unit-Variable Number Tandem Repeat). METHODS Sputa from 207 smear positive cases with newly diagnosed pulmonary tuberculosis were subjected to culture for M. tuberculosis. Eighty-five isolates confirmed as M. tuberculosis were subjected to drug susceptibility testing and molecular typing by spoligotyping and MIRU-VNTRs. RESULTS Drug susceptibility results of 72 isolates revealed 76.3% as fully sensitive while 5.5% as multidrug resistant (MDR). Spoligotyping of 85 isolates detected 42 spoligotypes with 50 isolates (58.8%) clustered into seven spoligotypes. SIT26/CAS1_Del was the major spoligotype (23, 27%) followed by SIT127/H4 (12, 14.1%); CAS lineage (37.6%) was predominant, followed by Haarlem (25.8%) and ill-defined T clade (23.5%). MIRU-VNTR analysis displayed 82 MIRU patterns from 85 strains, including 3 small clusters and 79 unique. MIRU 26 was found to be the most discriminatory locus. CONCLUSIONS Kashmir Valley has CAS as the predominant lineage of M. tuberculosis similar to the rest of the Indian sub-continent, while it is peculiar in having Euro American lineages such as Haarlem and ill-defined T clade.
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- Gulnaz Bashir
- Department of Microbiology, Sher-i-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences, Soura, Srinagar, India.
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- Department of Microbiology, Sher-i-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences, Soura, Srinagar, India
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- Department of Microbiology and Molecular Biology, NJIL& OMD (ICMR), Tajganj, Agra, India
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- NASI-ICMR Chair on Public Health Research, Rajasthan University of Health Sciences, Jaipur, India; Former Secretary, Former Director General, Department of Health Research (Ministry of Health and Family Welfare), Indian Council of Medical Research, New Delhi, India
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- Department of Microbiology, SKIMS Medical College, Bemina, Srinagar, India
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- Department of Pathology, Sher-i-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences, Soura, Srinagar, India
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- Department of Microbiology and Molecular Biology, NJIL& OMD (ICMR), Tajganj, Agra, India
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- Department of Microbiology, Sher-i-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences, Soura, Srinagar, India
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- Department of Microbiology and Molecular Biology, NJIL& OMD (ICMR), Tajganj, Agra, India
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Varma-Basil M, Narang A, Chakravorty S, Garima K, Gupta S, Kumar Sharma N, Giri A, Zozio T, Couvin D, Hanif M, Bhatnagar A, Menon B, Niemann S, Rastogi N, Alland D, Bose M. A snapshot of the predominant single nucleotide polymorphism cluster groups of Mycobacterium tuberculosis clinical isolates in Delhi, India. Tuberculosis (Edinb) 2016; 100:72-81. [DOI: 10.1016/j.tube.2016.07.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/29/2016] [Accepted: 07/10/2016] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Prevalence of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Beijing genotype and its association with drug resistance in North India. J Infect Public Health 2016; 10:409-414. [PMID: 27496592 DOI: 10.1016/j.jiph.2016.06.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/02/2016] [Revised: 06/02/2016] [Accepted: 06/24/2016] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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The global presence and rapid dissemination of Beijing genotype of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, makes it an important issue of public health. Its presence and association with multi-drug resistance has been shown in many settings. In present study we tried to find its prevalence and association with drug resistance in North India. One hundred and twenty four M. tuberculosis isolates were analyzed with spoligotyping, further drug susceptibility testing was done by 1% proportional method. Out of these, 11 (8.9%) M. tuberculosis isolates were identified as Beijing and 113 (91.1%) as non-Beijing genotypes. While looking at their drug susceptibility patterns, 6 (54.5%) & 22 (19.5%) were found to be multi drug resistant (MDR) among Beijing and non-Beijing isolates respectively. Our study concluded that the Beijing strains were not so common in north India and these strains do not fully associate with MDR.
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Draft Genome Sequence of Mycobacterium tuberculosis KT-0204, Isolated in South Korea. GENOME ANNOUNCEMENTS 2016; 4:4/1/e01519-15. [PMID: 26847902 PMCID: PMC4742671 DOI: 10.1128/genomea.01519-15] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Here, we describe the draft genome sequence of Mycobacterium tuberculosis KT-0204, non-Beijing family. This sequence will reveal genes related to the evolution and adaptation of M. tuberculosis KT-0204 in human hosts.
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Status of multidrug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) among the Sahariya tribe of North Central India. J Infect Public Health 2016; 9:289-97. [PMID: 26775848 DOI: 10.1016/j.jiph.2015.10.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/26/2015] [Revised: 07/25/2015] [Accepted: 10/07/2015] [Indexed: 10/22/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND The incidence/prevalence of tuberculosis (TB) is reported to be high in the Sahariya tribe of North Central India. The outbreaks of different drug-resistant isolates of Mycobacterium tuberculosis emphasized the need for continuous monitoring of resistance to anti-tuberculosis drugs. This study aimed to assess the profile of multidrug resistant TB among the Sahariya tribe and their non-tribal neighbors for first line drugs through field-based investigations. METHODOLOGY A total of 274 sputum positive pulmonary TB individuals were enrolled and studied for their drug susceptibility profile by the proportion method. RESULTS A total of 21 cases from Sahariya and 6 from non-tribes were identified with MDR-TB. Thus Sahariya tribe showed a 1.95-fold increased risk of developing drug resistance than non-tribes. Significant differences were observed for developing drug sensitivity between Sahariya males and females when analyzed for resistance developed to any drug and overall drug resistance vs. sensitive isolates, respectively. A 4.46-fold risk was found for MDR-TB among the smokers of Sahariya tribe, whereas, the non-tribes did not show any significant association. CONCLUSION The drug susceptibility profile developed in the present study indicates that drug-resistant tuberculosis is emerging as a serious public health concern in Sahariya tribe. Urgent and effective control measures and better management policies are needed for the prevention of MDR-TB in the tribe.
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Devi KR, Bhutia R, Bhowmick S, Mukherjee K, Mahanta J, Narain K. Genetic Diversity of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Isolates from Assam, India: Dominance of Beijing Family and Discovery of Two New Clades Related to CAS1_Delhi and EAI Family Based on Spoligotyping and MIRU-VNTR Typing. PLoS One 2015; 10:e0145860. [PMID: 26701129 PMCID: PMC4689458 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0145860] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/29/2015] [Accepted: 12/09/2015] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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Tuberculosis (TB) is one of the major public health concerns in Assam, a remote state located in the northeastern (NE) region of India. The present study was undertaken to explore the circulating genotypes of Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex (MTBC) in this region. A total of 189 MTBC strains were collected from smear positive pulmonary tuberculosis cases from different designated microscopy centres (DMC) from various localities of Assam. All MTBC isolates were cultured on Lowenstein-Jensen (LJ) media and subsequently genotyped using spoligotyping and 24-loci mycobacterial interspersed repetitive units-variable number of tandem repeats (MIRU-VNTR) typing. Spoligotyping of MTBC isolates revealed 89 distinct spoligo patterns. The most dominant MTBC strain belonged to Beijing lineage and was represented by 35.45% (n = 67) of total isolates, followed by MTBC strains belonging to Central Asian-Delhi (CAS/Delhi) lineage and East African Indian (EAI5) lineage. In addition, in the present study 43 unknown spoligo patterns were detected. The discriminatory power of spoligotyping was found to be 0.8637 based on Hunter Gaston Discriminatory Index (HGDI). On the other hand, 24-loci MIRU-VNTR typing revealed that out of total 189 MTBC isolates from Assam 185 (97.9%) isolates had unique MIRU-VNTR profiles and 4 isolates grouped into 2 clusters. Phylogenetic analysis of 67 Beijing isolates based on 24-loci MIRU-VNTR typing revealed that Beijing isolates from Assam represent two major groups, each comprising of several subgroups. Neighbour-Joining (NJ) phylogenetic tree analysis based on combined spoligotyping and 24-loci MIRU-VNTR data of 78 Non-Beijing isolates was carried out for strain lineage identification as implemented by MIRU-VNTRplus database. The important lineages of MTBC identified were CAS/CAS1_Delhi (41.02%, n = 78) and East-African-Indian (EAI, 33.33%). Interestingly, phylogenetic analysis of orphan (23.28%) MTBC spoligotypes revealed that majority of these orphan isolates from Assam represent two new sub-clades Assam/EAI and Assam/CAS. The prevalence of multidrug resistance (MDR) in Beijing and Non-Beijing strains was found to be 10.44% and 9.01% respectively. In conclusion, the present study has shown the predominance of Beijing isolates in Assam which is a matter of great concern because Beijing strains are considered to be ecologically more fit enabling wider dissemination of M. tuberculosis. Other interesting finding of the present study is the discovery of two new clades of MTBC isolates circulating in Assam. More elaborate longitudinal studies are required to be undertaken in this region to understand the transmission dynamics of MTBC.
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- Kangjam Rekha Devi
- Regional Medical Research Centre, N.E. Region (Indian Council of Medical Research), Post Box #105, Dibrugarh 786 001, Assam, India
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- Regional Medical Research Centre, N.E. Region (Indian Council of Medical Research), Post Box #105, Dibrugarh 786 001, Assam, India
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- Regional Medical Research Centre, N.E. Region (Indian Council of Medical Research), Post Box #105, Dibrugarh 786 001, Assam, India
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- Regional Medical Research Centre, N.E. Region (Indian Council of Medical Research), Post Box #105, Dibrugarh 786 001, Assam, India
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- Regional Medical Research Centre, N.E. Region (Indian Council of Medical Research), Post Box #105, Dibrugarh 786 001, Assam, India
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- Regional Medical Research Centre, N.E. Region (Indian Council of Medical Research), Post Box #105, Dibrugarh 786 001, Assam, India
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Kandhakumari G, Stephen S, Sivakumar S, Narayanan S. Spoligotype patterns of Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolated from extra pulmonary tuberculosis patients in Puducherry, India. Indian J Med Microbiol 2015; 33:267-70. [PMID: 25865980 DOI: 10.4103/0255-0857.154871] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/04/2022]
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PURPOSE Genotyping studies like spoligotyping are valuable tools in understanding the genetic diversity and epidemiology of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Though there are reports of spoligotyping of M. tuberculosis isolates from pulmonary specimens from different parts of India, spoligotyping of extra pulmonary tuberculosis isolates are very few. Puducherry has not yet recorded spoligopatterns of M. tuberculosis from either pulmonary or extra pulmonary (EPTB) specimens. The aim of this study is to analyze the spoligotype patterns of EPTB strains circulating in Puducherry and neighboring districts of Tamil Nadu. MATERIALS AND METHODS During June 2011 to December 2013, 570 EPTB specimens were processed by culturing on to Lowenstein Jensen (LJ) medium and automated Mycobacterium Growth Indicator Tube system (MGIT960). Identification of M. tuberculosis was carried out as per standard procedures, and MPT 64 antigen positivity in a commercial immunochromatography kit. Spoligotyping was carried out at National Institute of Research in Tuberculosis (ICMR), Chennai. RESULTS M. tuberculosis was isolated from 67 single EPTB specimens (11.8%) like pus/cold abscess (34), TB spine (10), pleural fluid (10), urine (5), tissue bit (2), lymph nodes (2), ascitic fluid (2), synovial fluid (1) and endometrial curetting (1). Among 67 isolates with 41 spoligopatterns, EAI lineage with 28 isolates (41.8%) predominated followed by 18 orphans (26.9%), 10 Beijing (14.9%) and 8 U (11.9%). BOVIS1_BCG (ST482), T1-T2 (ST78) and H3 (ST50) were represented by one strain each (1.5%). C onclusions: Spoligotyping plays a significant role in the epidemiology of tuberculosis. Three spoligotypes, T1-T2 (ST78), EAI6 (ST292) and U (ST1429) are reported for the first time in India.
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- Department of Microbiology, Mahatma Gandhi Medical College and Research Institute, Pondicherry, Tamil Nadu, India
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Singh J, Sankar MM, Kumar P, Couvin D, Rastogi N, Singh S. Genetic diversity and drug susceptibility profile of Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolated from different regions of India. J Infect 2015; 71:207-19. [PMID: 25934327 DOI: 10.1016/j.jinf.2015.04.028] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/22/2015] [Revised: 04/04/2015] [Accepted: 04/21/2015] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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OBJECTIVES Molecular genotyping profiles of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) provide a valuable insight into the evolution and transmission of the bacilli. Due to the lack of comprehensive national level data from India on this subject, we performed this study to determine the recent trends and distribution of various MTB lineages circulating in India. METHODS A total of 628 MTB isolates were obtained from North, West, South, Central and Eastern India. Spoligotyping and drug susceptibility testing was performed by using manufacturer's instructions. RESULTS Spoligotyping detected 102 distinct spoligo-patterns. A total of 536 (85.3%) isolates were distributed into 85 SITs which matched the pre-existing database, whereas 17 SITs were newly created for 34 (5.4%) isolates. Overall, CAS family genotype was predominant, comprising 222 (35.4%) isolates, followed by EAI in 152 (24.2%), Beijing in 108 (17.2%), Manu in 41 (6.5%), T in 30 (4.8%), H in 6 (0.9%), X in 3 (0.5%) and one (0.2%) each in Ural and AFRI. Drug susceptibility testing identified 134 (21.3%) isolates as multi drug resistant (MDR). CONCLUSIONS The CAS lineage had a pan India presence but EAI lineage was confined to southern parts of India. Beijing genotype of MTB was significantly associated (p-value <0.0001) with MDR.
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- Jitendra Singh
- Division of Clinical Microbiology and Molecular Medicine, Department of Laboratory Medicine, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India
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- Division of Clinical Microbiology and Molecular Medicine, Department of Laboratory Medicine, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India
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- Division of Clinical Microbiology and Molecular Medicine, Department of Laboratory Medicine, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India
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- WHO Supranational TB Reference Laboratory, Institute Pasteur de la Guadeloupe, Abymes, Guadeloupe, France
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- WHO Supranational TB Reference Laboratory, Institute Pasteur de la Guadeloupe, Abymes, Guadeloupe, France
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- Division of Clinical Microbiology and Molecular Medicine, Department of Laboratory Medicine, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India.
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Osman DA, Phelippeau M, Drancourt M, Musso D. Diversity of Mycobacterium tuberculosis lineages in French Polynesia. JOURNAL OF MICROBIOLOGY, IMMUNOLOGY, AND INFECTION = WEI MIAN YU GAN RAN ZA ZHI 2015; 50:199-206. [PMID: 26271142 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmii.2015.05.018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/11/2015] [Revised: 05/01/2015] [Accepted: 05/28/2015] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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BACKGROUND/PURPOSE French Polynesia is an overseas territory located in the South Pacific. The incidence of tuberculosis in French Polynesia has been stable since 2000 with an average of 20 cases/y/100,000 inhabitants. Molecular epidemiology of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in French Polynesia is unknown because M. tuberculosis isolates have not been routinely genotyped. METHODS From 2009 to 2012, 34 isolates collected from 32 French Polynesian patients were identified as M. tuberculosis by probe hybridization. These isolates were genotyped using spoligotyping and 24-loci mycobacterial interspersed repetitive units (MIRUs)-variable number of tandem repeat (VNTR). Spoligotype patterns obtained using commercial kits were compared with the online international database SITVIT. MIRU-VNTR genotyping was performed using an in-house protocol based on capillary electrophoresis sizing for 24-loci MIRU-VNTR genotyping. RESULTS The results of the spoligotyping method revealed that 25 isolates grouped into six previously described spoligotypes [H1, H3, U likely (S), T1, Manu, and Beijing] and nine isolates grouped into six new spoligotypes. Comparison with the international database MIRU-VNTRplus distributed 30 isolates into five lineages (Haarlem, Latin American Mediterranean, S, X, and Beijing) and four as unassigned isolates. CONCLUSION Genotyping identified four phylogenetic lineages belonging to the modern Euro-American subgroup, one Beijing genotype responsible for worldwide pandemics, including remote islands in the South Pacific, and one Manu genotype of the ancestral lineage of M. tuberculosis.
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- Djaltou Aboubaker Osman
- Unité de Recherche sur les Maladies Infectieuses et Tropicales Emergentes (URMITE), UMR CNRS 7278, IRD 198, INSERM 1095, Faculté de Médecine, Marseille, France; Institut de Recherche Médicinale (IRM), Centre d'études et de Recherche de Djibouti (CERD), Djibouti
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- Unité de Recherche sur les Maladies Infectieuses et Tropicales Emergentes (URMITE), UMR CNRS 7278, IRD 198, INSERM 1095, Faculté de Médecine, Marseille, France
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- Unité de Recherche sur les Maladies Infectieuses et Tropicales Emergentes (URMITE), UMR CNRS 7278, IRD 198, INSERM 1095, Faculté de Médecine, Marseille, France.
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- Pôle de recherche et de veille sur les maladies infectieuses émergente, Institut Louis Malardé, Tahiti, French Polynesia.
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Desikan S, Narayanan S. Genetic markers, genotyping methods & next generation sequencing in Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Indian J Med Res 2015; 141:761-74. [PMID: 26205019 PMCID: PMC4525401 DOI: 10.4103/0971-5916.160695] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/17/2014] [Indexed: 11/26/2022] Open
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Molecular epidemiology (ME) is one of the main areas in tuberculosis research which is widely used to study the transmission epidemics and outbreaks of tubercle bacilli. It exploits the presence of various polymorphisms in the genome of the bacteria that can be widely used as genetic markers. Many DNA typing methods apply these genetic markers to differentiate various strains and to study the evolutionary relationships between them. The three widely used genotyping tools to differentiate Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains are IS6110 restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP), spacer oligotyping (Spoligotyping), and mycobacterial interspersed repeat units - variable number of tandem repeats (MIRU-VNTR). A new prospect towards ME was introduced with the development of whole genome sequencing (WGS) and the next generation sequencing (NGS) methods, where the entire genome is sequenced that not only helps in pointing out minute differences between the various sequences but also saves time and the cost. NGS is also found to be useful in identifying single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), comparative genomics and also various aspects about transmission dynamics. These techniques enable the identification of mycobacterial strains and also facilitate the study of their phylogenetic and evolutionary traits.
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- Srinidhi Desikan
- Department of Immunology, National Institute of Research in Tuberculosis (ICMR), Chennai, India
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- Department of Immunology, National Institute of Research in Tuberculosis (ICMR), Chennai, India
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Weerasekera D, Magana-Arachchi D, Madegedara D, Dissanayake N, Thevanesam V. Genetic diversity of Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates obtained from three distinct population groups in the Central Province, Sri Lanka. ASIAN PACIFIC JOURNAL OF TROPICAL DISEASE 2015. [DOI: 10.1016/s2222-1808(14)60802-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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Dhanaraj B, Papanna MK, Adinarayanan S, Vedachalam C, Sundaram V, Shanmugam S, Sekar G, Menon PA, Wares F, Swaminathan S. Prevalence and risk factors for adult pulmonary tuberculosis in a metropolitan city of South India. PLoS One 2015; 10:e0124260. [PMID: 25905900 PMCID: PMC4408069 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0124260] [Citation(s) in RCA: 69] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/07/2014] [Accepted: 03/11/2015] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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Background The present study measured the community prevalence and risk factors of adult pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB) in Chennai city, and also studied geographical distribution and the presence of different M. tuberculosis strains in the survey area. Methods A community-based cross sectional survey was carried out from July 2010 to October 2012 in Chennai city. Prevalence of bacteriologically positive PTB was estimated by direct standardization method. Univariate and multivariate analyses were carried out to identify significant risk factors. Drug susceptibility testing and spoligotyping was performed on isolated M. tuberculosis strains. Mapping of PTB cases was done using geographic positioning systems. Results Of 59,957 eligible people, 55,617 were screened by X-ray and /or TB symptoms and the prevalence of smear, culture, and bacteriologically positive PTB was estimated to be 228 (95% CI 189–265), 259 (95% CI 217–299) and 349 (95% CI 330–428) per 100,000 population, respectively. Prevalence of smear, culture, and bacteriologically positive PTB was highest amongst men aged 55–64 years. Multivariate analysis showed that occurrence of both culture and bacteriologically positive PTB disease was significantly associated with: age >35 years, past history of TB treatment, BMI <18.5 Kgs/m2, solid cooking fuel, and being a male currently consuming alcohol. The most frequent spoligotype family was East African Indian. Spatial distribution showed that a high proportion of patients were clustered in the densely populated north eastern part of the city. Conclusion Our findings demonstrate that TB is a major public health problem in this urban area of south India, and support the use of intensified case finding in high risk groups. Undernutrition, slum dwelling, indoor air pollution and alcohol intake are modifiable risk factors for TB disease.
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- National Institute for Research in Tuberculosis, Chennai, India
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- Global TB Programme, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland
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- National Institute for Research in Tuberculosis, Chennai, India
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Mokrousov I. Mycobacterium tuberculosis phylogeography in the context of human migration and pathogen's pathobiology: Insights from Beijing and Ural families. Tuberculosis (Edinb) 2015; 95 Suppl 1:S167-76. [PMID: 25754342 DOI: 10.1016/j.tube.2015.02.031] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/16/2023]
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Here, I review the population structure and phylogeography of the two contrasting families of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, Beijing and Ural, in the context of strain pathobiology and human history and migration. Proprietary database (12-loci MIRU-VNTR profiles of 3067 Beijing genotype isolates) was subjected to phylogenetic and statistical analysis. The highest rate (90%) and diversity (HGI 0.80-0.95) of the Beijing genotype in North China suggest it to be its area of origin. Under VNTR-based MDS analysis the interpopulation genetic distances correlated with geography over uninterrupted landmasses. In contrast, large water distances together with long time generated remarkable outliers. Weak and less expected affinities of the distant M. tuberculosis populations may reflect hidden epidemiological links due to unknown migration. Association with drug-resistance or increased virulence/transmissibility along with particular human migration flows shape global dissemination of some Beijing clones. The paucity of data on the Ural genotype prevents from high-resolution analysis that was mainly based on the available spoligotyping data. The North/East Pontic area marked with the highest prevalence of the Ural family may have been the area of its origin and primary dispersal in Eurasia. Ural strains are not marked by increased pathogenic capacities, increased transmissibility and association with drug resistance (but most recent reports describe an alarming increase of MDR Ural strains in some parts of eastern Europe and northwestern Russia). Large-scale SNP or WGS population-based studies targeting strains from indigenous populations and, eventually, analysis of ancient DNA will better test these hypotheses. Host genetics factors likely play the most prominent role in differential dissemination of particular M. tuberculosis genotypes.
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- Igor Mokrousov
- St. Petersburg Pasteur Institute, St. Petersburg 197101, Russia.
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Desikan P, Chauhan DS, Sharma P, Panwalkar N, Gautam S, Katoch VM. A pilot study to determine genetic polymorphism in Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates in Central India. Indian J Med Microbiol 2013. [PMID: 23183476 DOI: 10.4103/0255-0857.103774] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/04/2022]
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This study was carried out to identify predominant spoligotypes responsible for transmission and prevalence of tuberculosis in central India since there is no data available about the genetic biodiversity of Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates from patients with tuberculosis in this region. 35 strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis were subjected to spoligotyping according to the standard protocol. A total of 25 strains out of the 35 (71.42%) could be grouped in to 6 clusters. The largest cluster comprised 8 isolates. Unique (Non-clustered) spoligotypes were seen in 10 isolates, Nine strains did not match the data base (Spol DB-4 data base). The results indicate that there may be a number of orphan strains unique to this geographical area. Further studies on a larger sample size derived from this area would help us delineate the epidemiology of Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection in this area.
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- P Desikan
- Department of Microbiology, Bhopal Memorial Hospital and Research Centre, Raisen Bypass Road, Karond, Bhopal, India
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Chatterjee A, Saranath D, Bhatter P, Mistry N. Global transcriptional profiling of longitudinal clinical isolates of Mycobacterium tuberculosis exhibiting rapid accumulation of drug resistance. PLoS One 2013; 8:e54717. [PMID: 23355892 PMCID: PMC3552959 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0054717] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/09/2012] [Accepted: 12/14/2012] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
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The identification of multidrug resistant (MDR), extensively and totally drug resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb), in vulnerable sites such as Mumbai, is a grave threat to the control of tuberculosis. The current study aimed at explaining the rapid expression of MDR in Directly Observed Treatment Short Course (DOTS) compliant patients, represents the first study comparing global transcriptional profiles of 3 pairs of clinical Mtb isolates, collected longitudinally at initiation and completion of DOTS. While the isolates were drug susceptible (DS) at onset and MDR at completion of DOTS, they exhibited identical DNA fingerprints at both points of collection. The whole genome transcriptional analysis was performed using total RNA from H37Rv and 3 locally predominant spoligotypes viz. MANU1, CAS and Beijing, hybridized on MTBv3 (BuG@S) microarray, and yielded 36, 98 and 45 differentially expressed genes respectively. Genes encoding transcription factors (sig, rpoB), cell wall biosynthesis (emb genes), protein synthesis (rpl) and additional central metabolic pathways (ppdK, pknH, pfkB) were found to be down regulated in the MDR isolates as compared to the DS isolate of the same genotype. Up regulation of drug efflux pumps, ABC transporters, trans-membrane proteins and stress response transcriptional factors (whiB) in the MDR isolates was observed. The data indicated that Mtb, without specific mutations in drug target genes may persist in the host due to additional mechanisms like drug efflux pumps and lowered rate of metabolism. Furthermore this population of Mtb, which also showed reduced DNA repair activity, would result in selection and stabilization of spontaneous mutations in drug target genes, causing selection of a MDR strain in the presence of drug pressures. Efflux pump such as drrA may play a significant role in increasing fitness of low level drug resistant cells and assist in survival of Mtb till acquisition of drug resistant mutations with least fitness cost.
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MESH Headings
- DNA Fingerprinting
- Drug Resistance, Multiple, Bacterial/drug effects
- Drug Resistance, Multiple, Bacterial/physiology
- Gene Expression Profiling/methods
- Gene Expression Regulation, Bacterial/drug effects
- Gene Expression Regulation, Bacterial/physiology
- Genome-Wide Association Study
- India
- Longitudinal Studies
- Mycobacterium tuberculosis/genetics
- Mycobacterium tuberculosis/isolation & purification
- Mycobacterium tuberculosis/metabolism
- Transcriptome/drug effects
- Transcriptome/physiology
- Tuberculosis, Multidrug-Resistant/drug therapy
- Tuberculosis, Multidrug-Resistant/epidemiology
- Tuberculosis, Multidrug-Resistant/genetics
- Tuberculosis, Multidrug-Resistant/metabolism
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- Anirvan Chatterjee
- Department of Tuberculosis, The Foundation for Medical Research, Mumbai, India
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- Department of Tuberculosis, The Foundation for Medical Research, Mumbai, India
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- Department of Tuberculosis, The Foundation for Medical Research, Mumbai, India
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- Department of Tuberculosis, The Foundation for Medical Research, Mumbai, India
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Sankar MM, Singh J, Diana SCA, Singh S. Molecular characterization of Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates from North Indian patients with extrapulmonary tuberculosis. Tuberculosis (Edinb) 2013; 93:75-83. [PMID: 23140853 DOI: 10.1016/j.tube.2012.10.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/16/2012] [Revised: 10/11/2012] [Accepted: 10/12/2012] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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Genotypic studies are important to understand the molecular epidemiology and transmission routes of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. In the first and largest study from India, spoligotyping and 24 loci mycobacterial interspersed repetitive units (MIRU) were performed to find genetic profiles of 125 M. tuberculosis strains isolated from patients with extrapulmonary tuberculosis (EPTB) and their drug susceptibility test was performed using BACTEC-MGIT 960. Spoligotyping results were compared with the world Spoligotyping Database of Institute Pasteur de Guadeloupe (SpolDB4). The spoligotyping results showed that 110 (88%) displayed known patterns while 15 (12%) isolates had no matching database. Predominant spoligotypes belonged to CAS family (57.27%). The largest clade comprised of 38 isolates belonging to the CAS1_DEL lineage. Though there was no significant association between specific mycobacterial lineage and extrapulmonary site, a significantly high (p < 0.001) number of Beijing type isolates (28.6%) were isolated from bone and joint samples as compared to cerebrospinal fluid (5%). There was a significant association between Beijing family isolates and multi-drug-resistance, while all MANU genotypes were pan-drug sensitive. The CAS family lineage was most prevalent genotype in the EPTB cases in our population.
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- Manimuthu Mani Sankar
- Clinical Microbiology Division, Department of Laboratory Medicine, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi 110029, India
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Chatterjee A, Mistry N. MIRU-VNTR profiles of three major Mycobacterium tuberculosis spoligotypes found in western India. Tuberculosis (Edinb) 2012; 93:250-6. [PMID: 23219234 DOI: 10.1016/j.tube.2012.10.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/23/2012] [Revised: 10/11/2012] [Accepted: 10/12/2012] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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We performed 12 loci MIRU-VNTR on 327 Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) isolates belonging to three major spoligotypes MANU1, CAS1_Delhi and Beijing from Mumbai, western India and two proximal rural locations. Complete allele and drug susceptibility data was available for 232 isolates. These included 143 MANU1 (ST100), 65 CAS1_Delhi (ST26) and 24 Beijing (ST1) isolates. Of the 232 isolates, 26 were rural consisting 6 CAS1_Delhi and 20 MANU1 isolates. Using eBURST multi-locus sequence typing (MLST), cluster analyses was performed for each of the spoligotypes and drug susceptibility profiles. MANU1 MLST consisted of 90 related isolates (clustered and grouped) and 53 singletons; CAS1_Delhi MLST consisted of 44 related isolates and 21 singletons; Beijing MLST consisted of 10 related isolates and 14 singletons. Although the number of related isolates were different in MANU1 (63%), CAS1_Delhi (68%) and Beijing (42%) clusters, it was not statistically significant. Furthermore, it was observed that while MANU1 and CAS1_Delhi singletons (n = 74) had only 12 (16%) MDR isolates, the Beijing MLST had 8/14 (57%) MDR singleton isolates. Phylogenetic ananlysis using minimum spanning tree (MST) and a UPGMA radial tree revealed MANU1 had the largest number of nodes as compared to the CAS1_Delhi and Beijing spoligotypes. Additionally the CAS isolates were more homogeneous than the MANU1 isolates. The 12 loci MIRU-VNTR was used to provide greater discrimination than spoligotyping, but 6 of the 12 loci provided less than 50% discriminatory power. The highest discrimination was achieved using locus 26 (80%). Our results concur with recent reports that the most discriminatory MIRU-VNTR combination varied across different lineages. The results also highlight the need for more robust genetic markers for studying the transmission of Mtb in endemic regions like India.
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- Anirvan Chatterjee
- The Foundation for Medical Research, 84-A, R.G. Thadani Marg, Worli, Bombay 400018, India
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lachmi KW, Lin L, Kornum BR, Rico T, Lo B, Aran A, Mignot E. DQB1*06:02 allele-specific expression varies by allelic dosage, not narcolepsy status. Hum Immunol 2012; 73:405-10. [PMID: 22326585 PMCID: PMC3501142 DOI: 10.1016/j.humimm.2012.01.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/19/2011] [Revised: 01/06/2012] [Accepted: 01/24/2012] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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The association of narcolepsy-cataplexy, a sleep disorder caused by the loss of hypocretin/orexin neurons in the hypothalamus, with DQA1*01:02-DQB1*06:02 is one of the tightest known single-allele human leukocyte antigen (HLA) associations. In this study, we explored genome-wide expression in peripheral white blood cells of 50 narcolepsy versus 47 controls (half of whom were DQB1*06:02 positive) and observed the largest differences between the groups in the signal from HLA probes. Further studies of HLA-DQ expression (mRNA and protein in a subset) in 125 controls and 147 narcolepsy cases did not reveal any difference, a result we explain by the lack of proper control of allelic diversity in Affymetrix HLA probes. Rather, a clear effect of DQB1*06:02 allelic dosage on DQB1*06:02 mRNA levels (1.65-fold) and protein (1.59-fold) could be demonstrated independent of disease status. These results indicate that allelic dosage is transmitted into changes in heterodimer availability, a phenomenon that may explain the increased risk for narcolepsy in DQB1*06:02 homozygotes versus heterozygotes.
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- Karin Weiner lachmi
- Center for Sleep Sciences, Stanford University, 1050 Arastradero Road. Bldg A Lab A258, Palo Alto, CA 94304-5592, USA
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- Center for Sleep Sciences, Stanford University, 1050 Arastradero Road. Bldg A Lab A258, Palo Alto, CA 94304-5592, USA
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- Center for Sleep Sciences, Stanford University, 1050 Arastradero Road. Bldg A Lab A258, Palo Alto, CA 94304-5592, USA
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- Center for Sleep Sciences, Stanford University, 1050 Arastradero Road. Bldg A Lab A258, Palo Alto, CA 94304-5592, USA
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- Center for Sleep Sciences, Stanford University, 1050 Arastradero Road. Bldg A Lab A258, Palo Alto, CA 94304-5592, USA
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- Center for Sleep Sciences, Stanford University, 1050 Arastradero Road. Bldg A Lab A258, Palo Alto, CA 94304-5592, USA
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- Center for Sleep Sciences, Stanford University, 1050 Arastradero Road. Bldg A Lab A258, Palo Alto, CA 94304-5592, USA
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Varma-Basil M, Kumar S, Arora J, Angrup A, Zozio T, Banavaliker JN, Singh UB, Rastogi N, Bose M. Comparison of spoligotyping, mycobacterial interspersed repetitive units typing and IS6110-RFLP in a study of genotypic diversity of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in Delhi, North India. Mem Inst Oswaldo Cruz 2012; 106:524-35. [PMID: 21894371 DOI: 10.1590/s0074-02762011000500002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/03/2010] [Accepted: 06/06/2011] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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The aim of the present study was to compare polymerase chain reaction (PCR)-based methods--spoligotyping and mycobacterial interspersed repetitive units (MIRU) typing--with the gold-standard IS6110 restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) analysis in 101 isolates of Mycobacterium tuberculosis to determine the genetic diversity of M. tuberculosis clinical isolates from Delhi, North India. Spoligotyping resulted in 49 patterns (14 clusters); the largest cluster was composed of Spoligotype International Types (SITs)26 [Central-Asian (CAS)1-Delhi lineage], followed by SIT11 [East-African-Indian (EAI) 3-Indian lineage]. A large number of isolates (75%) belonged to genotypic lineages, such as CAS, EAI and Manu, with a high specificity for the Indian subcontinent, emphasising the complex diversity of the phylogenetically coherent M. tuberculosis in North India. MIRU typing, using 11 discriminatory loci, was able to distinguish between all but two strains based on individual patterns. IS6110-RFLP analysis (n = 80 strains) resulted in 67 unique isolates and four clusters containing 13 strains. MIRUs discriminated all 13 strains, whereas spoligotyping discriminated 11 strains. Our results validate the use of PCR-based molecular typing of M. tuberculosis using repetitive elements in Indian isolates and demonstrate the usefulness of MIRUs for discriminating low-IS6110-copy isolates, which accounted for more than one-fifth of the strains in the present study.
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- Mandira Varma-Basil
- Deptartment of Microbiology, Vallabhbhai Patel Chest Institute, University of Delhi, Delhi, India
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Thomas SK, Iravatham CC, Moni BH, Kumar A, Archana BV, Majid M, Priyadarshini Y, Rani PS, Valluri V, Hasnain SE, Ahmed N. Modern and ancestral genotypes of Mycobacterium tuberculosis from Andhra Pradesh, India. PLoS One 2011; 6:e27584. [PMID: 22114678 PMCID: PMC3219672 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0027584] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/01/2011] [Accepted: 10/19/2011] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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Traditionally, the distribution of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis genotypes in India has been characterized by widespread prevalence of ancestral lineages (TbD1+ strains and variants) in the south and the modern forms (TbD1− CAS and variants) predominating in the north of India. The pattern was, however, not clearly known in the south-central region such as Hyderabad and the rest of the state of Andhra Pradesh where the prevalence of both tuberculosis (TB) and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection is one of the highest in the country; this area has been the hotspot of TB vaccine trials. Spoligotyping of 101 clinical isolates obtained from Hyderabad and rural Andhra Pradesh confirmed the occurrence of major genogroups such as the ancestral (or the TbD1+ type or the East African Indian (EAI) type), the Central Asian (CAS) or Delhi type and the Beijing lineage in Andhra Pradesh. Sixty five different spoligotype patterns were observed for the isolates included in this study; these were further analyzed based on specific genetic signatures/mutations. It was found that the major genogroups, CAS and “ancestral,” were almost equally prevalent in our collection but followed a north-south compartmentalization as was also reported previously. However, we observed a significant presence of MANU lineage in south Andhra Pradesh, which was earlier reported to be overwhelmingly present in Mumbai. This study portrays genotypic diversity of M. tuberculosis from the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh and provides a much needed snapshot of the strain diversity that will be helpful in devising effective TB control programs in this part of the world.
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- Shirly K. Thomas
- Institute of Life Sciences, University of Hyderabad Campus, Hyderabad, India
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- Pathogen Biology Laboratory, Department of Biotechnology, School of Life Sciences, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, India
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- Pathogen Biology Laboratory, Department of Biotechnology, School of Life Sciences, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, India
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- Institute of Life Sciences, University of Hyderabad Campus, Hyderabad, India
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- Pathogen Biology Laboratory, Department of Biotechnology, School of Life Sciences, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, India
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- Pathogen Biology Laboratory, Department of Biotechnology, School of Life Sciences, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, India
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- Pathogen Biology Laboratory, Department of Biotechnology, School of Life Sciences, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, India
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- Bhagwan Mahavir Hospital and Research Centre, AC Guards, Hyderabad, India
- Blue Peter Research Centre – Lepra India, Cherlapally, Hyderabad, India
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- Institute of Life Sciences, University of Hyderabad Campus, Hyderabad, India
- School of Biological Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi, India
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- Institute of Life Sciences, University of Hyderabad Campus, Hyderabad, India
- Pathogen Biology Laboratory, Department of Biotechnology, School of Life Sciences, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, India
- Institute of Biological Sciences, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
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Mokrousov I. The quiet and controversial: Ural family of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. INFECTION GENETICS AND EVOLUTION 2011; 12:619-29. [PMID: 22036706 DOI: 10.1016/j.meegid.2011.09.026] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/02/2011] [Revised: 09/29/2011] [Accepted: 09/30/2011] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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The absence of lateral gene exchange is a characteristic feature defining the genome evolution and clonal population structure of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Certain of its lineages have justly attracted more attention due to their global dissemination and/or remarkable pathogenic properties. In this critical review, I discuss the population structure and genetic geography of the less 'popular' but in some aspects no less noteworthy M. tuberculosis lineage, Ural family. Its specific signature was initially defined by single copy in MIRU26, and large (>6) copy number in MIRU10 loci, and by 43-spoligotyping as absence of signals 29-31 and 33-36. Here, I suggest to subdivide Ural strains with present and absent spoligosignal 2 into primary Ural-1 and secondary Ural-2 sublineages, respectively, while 1 copy in MIRU26 is specific of Ural-1. Furthermore, three copies were recently described in MIRU10 in Ural-1 strains which highlights a high diversity of this locus in Ural genotype. The data on the two Ural sublineages were extracted from SpolDB4 database and original publications in order to trace their distribution at global and within-country levels. Importantly, the rigorous reanalysis suggested the true rate of the Ural genotype in the Ural area in Russia to be only 7%. In contrast, the frequencies of the Ural sublineages peak elsewhere: in South Ukraine and Georgia/Abkhazia (Ural-1, up to 14-19%), and in southwestern Iran (Ural-2, up to 26%). However, as this name is used since 2005, it seems most parsimonious to continue its use even if misleading. The forest graph was built on the available spoligoprofiles of Ural family strains from Eurasia. It helped to suggest routes of their primary dispersal that are discussed in the context of the known human migrations also influenced by natural barriers. The north/east Pontic area may have been an area of origin and primary dispersal of the Ural (Ural-1) genotype in Eurasia, whereas political and natural borders may have influenced its subsequent dissemination throughout Central Asia. Studies of phenotypic properties in different models, comparison with host genetics give evidence that the Ural family strains are not associated with increased capacity to acquire drug resistance, pathogenicity or transmissibility. Instead since Ural family is rather moderately widespread in Eurasia beyond the hypothesized areas of origin, this situation may be a result of its low contagiosity as a consequence of long-term co-adaptation with human host. Future research should be focused on whole-genome sequencing in order to identify Ural-specific SNP and/or deletion, to resolve its phylogenetic and phylogeographic uncertainty and to elucidate biological features underlying its circulation and co-evolution with the human species.
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- Igor Mokrousov
- Laboratory of Molecular Microbiology, St. Petersburg Pasteur Institute, St. Petersburg, Russia.
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Mycobacterium tuberculosis "Beijing" epidemics: a race against mutations? Tuberculosis (Edinb) 2011; 92:92-4. [PMID: 22015174 DOI: 10.1016/j.tube.2011.09.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/11/2011] [Revised: 09/02/2011] [Accepted: 09/20/2011] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Multi Drug Resistant Tuberculosis Beijing strains exhibit different drug-resistance mutations (DRM) in different locations. By comparing DRM in Beijing reported from Tuberculosis endemic and epidemic locations, we propose that DRM selected in a population cannot tolerate biologically available drugs in different populations resulting in further evolution through novel DRM.
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Ahmed N, Hasnain SE. Molecular epidemiology of tuberculosis in India: Moving forward with a systems biology approach. Tuberculosis (Edinb) 2011; 91:407-13. [DOI: 10.1016/j.tube.2011.03.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/22/2010] [Revised: 03/16/2011] [Accepted: 03/19/2011] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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Shanmugam S, Selvakumar N, Narayanan S. Drug resistance among different genotypes of Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolated from patients from Tiruvallur, South India. INFECTION GENETICS AND EVOLUTION 2011; 11:980-6. [PMID: 21453793 DOI: 10.1016/j.meegid.2011.03.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/22/2010] [Revised: 03/15/2011] [Accepted: 03/17/2011] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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India continues to have the highest tuberculosis incidence, accounting for one fifth of the global incidence and 2/3rd of the cases in south East Asia. The TB burden is also augmented by multi drug resistance and HIV. Although inadequate and inappropriate treatment is responsible for drug resistance, pathogen's genetic background may also play a role. The aim of this study was to understand the distribution of different genotypes of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in the Tiruvallur, rural area in South India and its association with drug resistance. A total of 1649 M. tuberculosis isolates were genotyped by IS6110 RFLP and spoligotyping. Drug susceptibility testing was done by minimum inhibitory concentration method (MIC) on all the samples. As reported earlier, the isolates with single and low copy IS6110 accounted for 66% among the 1649 M. tuberculosis strains genotyped. The majority (84%) of our strains belonged to the East African Indian (EAI) lineage, 28.6% to EAI3 sublineage and 19.5% to EAI5 sublineage. Rifampicin and streptomycin mono resistance followed by MDR (Multi-Drug Resistance, resistance to at least rifampicin and isoniazid) [(OR 0.2 [95%CI 0.11-0.46], P < 0.05)] were more common between Central Asian (CAS), T and Beijing compared to EAI lineage. In spite of the predominance of EAI lineage, its association with drug resistance was lower compared to the other genotypes prevalent in Tiruvallur, South India.
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- Sivakumar Shanmugam
- Department of Immunology, Tuberculosis Research Centre, Indian Council of Medical Research, Mayor VR Ramanathan Road, Chetpet, Chennai 600031, Tamilnadu, India
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Determination of drug susceptibility patterns and genotypes of Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates from Kanpur district, North India. INFECTION GENETICS AND EVOLUTION 2011; 11:469-75. [PMID: 21237291 DOI: 10.1016/j.meegid.2010.12.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/20/2010] [Revised: 12/16/2010] [Accepted: 12/17/2010] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Molecular typing of Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates has greatly facilitated the understanding of tuberculosis epidemiology. This study was done to characterize prevalent M. tuberculosis genotypes in a defined area of Kanpur district, North India by spoligotyping and IS6110-Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphism (RFLP) and to correlate the genotypes identified with their drug susceptibility patterns. METHODS Ninety-eight patients had clinical features suggestive of pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB) and out of them, 22 were new smear positive PTB (CAT I DOTS), 48 smear positive re-treatment, defaulters and CAT I failure PTB (CAT II DOTS) and 28 new smear negative PTB (CAT III). Out of them, sputum culture was positive for M. tuberculosis in 74 cases. DNA was extracted from growth on Lowenstein-Jensen slants and subjected to spoligotyping. Clusters were subsequently analyzed with IS6110 RFLP. Drug susceptibility testing was done for rifampicin, isoniazid, ethambutol, ofloxacin, streptomycin and kanamycin. RESULTS Thirty-seven spoligo patterns were observed. Predominant spoligotypes belonged to Central Asian Delhi family (33.78%), Beijing family (10.8%), East African-Indian family (5.4%), T1 family (5.4%) and U family (4.1%). RFLP analysis revealed 66% isolates had more than 10 IS6110 copies while 17% isolates each had low (1-5) and intermediate (6-9) copy numbers. All the isolates clustered by spoligotyping were identified unique by RFLP. Resistance to at least one drug was present in 35 (47.3%), out of which 8 patients belonged to CAT I and 27 to CAT II. Eleven (14.86%) were multi drug-resistant (MDR) and out of them, 6 (54.5%) isolates were of ST1/Beijing family. MDR-TB was significantly higher in Beijing strain than others (p<0.0001), however, most (83%) were from previously treated cases and thus can not be linked with recent transmission. CONCLUSION This approach of molecular typing appears promising and merits further evaluation to study dynamics of TB transmission specially in India.
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Atre SR, D'Souza DTB, Vira TS, Chatterjee A, Mistry NF. Risk factors associated with MDR-TB at the onset of therapy among new cases registered with the RNTCP in Mumbai, India. Indian J Public Health 2011; 55:14-21. [PMID: 21727675 PMCID: PMC4132633 DOI: 10.4103/0019-557x.82536] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/04/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Multidrug - resistant TB (MDR - TB) has emerged as a major threat to global TB control efforts in recent years. Facilities for its diagnosis and treatment are limited in many high - burden countries, including India. In hyper - endemic areas like Mumbai, screening for newly diagnosed cases at a higher risk of acquiring MDR - TB is necessary, for initiating appropriate and timely treatment, to prevent its further spread. OBJECTIVE To assess risk factors associated with MDR - TB among Category I, new sputum smear-positive cases, at the onset of therapy. MATERIALS AND METHODS The study applied an unmatched case - control design for 514 patients (106 cases with MDR - TB strains and 408 controls with non - MDR - TB strains). The patients were registered with the Revised National Tuberculosis Control Program (RNTCP) in four selected wards of Mumbai during April 2004 - January 2007. Data were collected through semi - structured interviews and drug susceptibility test results. RESULTS Multivariate analysis indicated that infection with the Beijing strain (OR = 3.06; 95% C.I. = 1.12 - 8.38; P = 0.029) and female gender (OR = 1.68; 95% C.I. = 1.02 - 2.87; P = 0.042) were significant predictors of MDR-TB at the onset of therapy. CONCLUSION The study provides a starting point to further examine the usefulness of these risk factors as screening tools in identifying individuals with MDR-TB, in settings where diagnostic and treatment facilities for MDR-TB are limited.
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- Sachin R Atre
- Foundation for Research in Community Health, Pune, India.
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In a 2-year prospective study of tuberculosis (TB) patients in China, the prevalences of non-Beijing strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis varied between Shandong Province (20.6%), Shanghai (27.6%), and Sichuan Province (45.9%) (P < 0.005). These differences may be due to factors such as human migration, transmission, or diversification and adaptation of the mycobacteria to different hosts.
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Strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis from western Maharashtra, India, exhibit a high degree of diversity and strain-specific associations with drug resistance, cavitary disease, and treatment failure. J Clin Microbiol 2010; 48:3593-9. [PMID: 20720028 DOI: 10.1128/jcm.00430-10] [Citation(s) in RCA: 56] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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We performed spoligotyping of Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates from 833 systematically sampled pulmonary tuberculosis (TB) patients in urban Mumbai, India (723 patients), and adjacent rural areas in western India (110 patients). The urban cohort consisted of two groups of patients, new cases (646 patients) and first-time treatment failures (77 patients), while only new cases were recruited in the rural areas. The isolates from urban new cases showed 71% clustering, with 168 Manu1, 62 CAS, 22 Beijing, and 30 EAI-5 isolates. The isolates from first-time treatment failures were 69% clustered, with 14 Manu1, 8 CAS, 8 Beijing, and 6 EAI-5 isolates. The proportion of Beijing strains was higher in this group than in urban new cases (odds ratio [OR], 3.29; 95% confidence limit [95% CL], 1.29 to 8.14; P = 0.003). The isolates from rural new cases showed 69% clustering, with 38 Manu1, 7 CAS, and 1 EAI-5 isolate. Beijing was absent in the rural cohort. Manu1 was found to be more common in the rural cohort (OR, 0.67; 95% CL, 0.42 to 1.05; P = 0.06). In total, 71% of isolates were clustered into 58 spoligotypes with 4 predominant strains, Manu1 (26%), CAS (9%), EAI-5 (4%), and Beijing (4%), along with 246 unique spoligotypes. In the isolates from urban new cases, we found Beijing to be associated with multidrug resistance (MDR) (OR, 3.40; 95% CL, 1.20 to 9.62; P = 0.02). CAS was found to be associated with pansensitivity (OR, 1.83; 95% CL, 1.03 to 3.24; P = 0.03) and cavities as seen on chest radiographs (OR, 2.72; 95% CL, 1.34 to 5.53; P = 0.006). We recorded 239 new spoligotypes yet unreported in the global databases, suggesting that the local TB strains exhibit a high degree of diversity.
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Millet J, Baboolal S, Akpaka PE, Ramoutar D, Rastogi N. Phylogeographical and molecular characterization of an emerging Mycobacterium tuberculosis clone in Trinidad and Tobago. INFECTION GENETICS AND EVOLUTION 2009; 9:1336-44. [DOI: 10.1016/j.meegid.2009.09.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/26/2009] [Revised: 09/07/2009] [Accepted: 09/14/2009] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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In-depth molecular characterization of Mycobacterium tuberculosis from New Delhi--predominance of drug resistant isolates of the 'modern' (TbD1) type. PLoS One 2009; 4:e4540. [PMID: 19234602 PMCID: PMC2641002 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0004540] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/18/2008] [Accepted: 01/17/2009] [Indexed: 01/12/2023] Open
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Background India has the highest estimated burden of tuberculosis in the world, accounting for 21% of all tuberculosis cases world-wide. However, due to lack of systematic analysis using multiple markers the available information on the genomic diversity of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in India is limited. Methodology/Principal Findings Thus, 65 M. tuberculosis isolates from New Delhi, India were analyzed by spoligotyping, MIRU-VNTR, large deletion PCR typing and single nucleotide polymorphism analysis (SNP). The Central Asian (CAS) 1 _DELHI sub-lineage was the most prevalent sub-lineage comprising 46.2% (n = 30) of all isolates, with shared-type (ST) 26 being the most dominant genotype comprising 24.6% (n = 16) of all isolates. Other sub-lineages observed were: East-African Indian (EAI)-5 (9.2%, n = 6), EAI6_BGD1 (6.2%, n = 4), EAI3_IND, CAS and T1 with 6.2% each (n = 4 each), Beijing (4.6%, n = 3), CAS2 (3.1%, n = 2), and X1 and X2 with 1 isolate each. Genotyping results from five isolates (7.7%) did not match any existing spoligopatterns, and one isolate, ST124, belonged to an undefined lineage. Twenty-six percent of the isolates belonged to the TbD1+ PGG1 genogroup. SNP analysis of the pncA gene revealed a CAS-lineage specific silent mutation, S65S, which was observed for all CAS-lineage isolates (except two ST26 isolates) and in 1 orphan. Mutations in the pncA gene, conferring resistance to pyrazinamide, were observed in 15.4% of all isolates. Collectively, mutations in the rpoB gene, the katG gene and in both rpoB and katG genes, conferring resistance to rifampicin and isoniazid, respectively, were more frequent in CAS1_DELHI isolates compared to non-CAS_DELHI isolates (OR: 3.1, CI95% [1.11, 8.70], P = 0.045). The increased frequency of drug-resistance could not be linked to the patients' history of previous anti-tuberculosis treatment (OR: 1.156, CI95% [0.40, 3.36], P = 0.79). Fifty-six percent of all new tuberculosis patients had mutations in either the katG gene or the rpoB gene, or in both katG and rpoB genes. Conclusion CAS1_DELHI isolates circulating in New Delhi, India have a high frequency of mutations in the rpoB and katG genes. A silent mutation (S65S) in the pncA gene can be used as a putative genetic marker for CAS-lineage isolates.
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Tanveer M, Hasan Z, Siddiqui AR, Ali A, Kanji A, Ghebremicheal S, Hasan R. Genotyping and drug resistance patterns of M. tuberculosis strains in Pakistan. BMC Infect Dis 2008; 8:171. [PMID: 19108722 PMCID: PMC2630917 DOI: 10.1186/1471-2334-8-171] [Citation(s) in RCA: 57] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/22/2007] [Accepted: 12/24/2008] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND The incidence of tuberculosis in Pakistan is 181/100,000 population. However, information about transmission and geographical prevalence of Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains and their evolutionary genetics as well as drug resistance remains limited. Our objective was to determine the clonal composition, evolutionary genetics and drug resistance of M. tuberculosis isolates from different regions of the country. METHODS M. tuberculosis strains isolated (2003-2005) from specimens submitted to the laboratory through collection units nationwide were included. Drug susceptibility was performed and strains were spoligotyped. RESULTS Of 926 M. tuberculosis strains studied, 721(78%) were grouped into 59 "shared types", while 205 (22%) were identified as "Orphan" spoligotypes. Amongst the predominant genotypes 61% were Central Asian strains (CAS ; including CAS1, CAS sub-families and Orphan Pak clusters), 4% East African-Indian (EAI), 3% Beijing, 2% poorly defined TB strains (T), 2% Haarlem and LAM (0.2). Also TbD1 analysis (M. tuberculosis specific deletion 1) confirmed that CAS1 was of "modern" origin while EAI isolates belonged to "ancestral" strain types.Prevalence of CAS1 clade was significantly higher in Punjab (P < 0.01, Pearsons Chi-square test) as compared with Sindh, North West Frontier Province and Balochistan provinces. Forty six percent of isolates were sensitive to five first line antibiotics tested, 45% were Rifampicin resistant, 50% isoniazid resistant. MDR was significantly associated with Beijing strains (P = 0.01, Pearsons Chi-square test) and EAI (P = 0.001, Pearsons Chi-square test), but not with CAS family. CONCLUSION Our results show variation of prevalent M. tuberculosis strain with greater association of CAS1 with the Punjab province. The fact that the prevalent CAS genotype was not associated with drug resistance is encouraging. It further suggests a more effective treatment and control programme should be successful in reducing the tuberculosis burden in Pakistan.
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- Mahnaz Tanveer
- Department of Pathology and Microbiology, The Aga Khan University, Stadium Road Karachi, Pakistan
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- Department of Pathology and Microbiology, The Aga Khan University, Stadium Road Karachi, Pakistan
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- Department of Community Health Sciences, The Aga Khan University, Stadium Road Karachi, Pakistan
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- Department of Pathology and Microbiology, The Aga Khan University, Stadium Road Karachi, Pakistan
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- Department of Pathology and Microbiology, The Aga Khan University, Stadium Road Karachi, Pakistan
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- Department of Bacteriology, Swedish Institute for Infectious Diseases Control, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Pathology and Microbiology, The Aga Khan University, Stadium Road Karachi, Pakistan
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