Article
A first insight on the population structure of Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex as studied by spoligotyping and MIRU-VNTRs in Bogotá, Colombia.
Infection, genetics and evolution : journal of molecular epidemiology and evolutionary genetics in infectious diseases - 1 Jun 2012
Cerezo Irene, Jiménez Yesica, Hernandez Johana, Zozio Thierry, Murcia Martha I, Rastogi Nalin
Abstract excerpt
With an incidence of 25.6/100,000 in 2008, tuberculosis (TB) remains an important public health problem in Colombia. In this study, a total of 152 Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex strains isolated in Bogotá, Colombia between years 1995 and 2007 were genotyped by spoligotyping and 12-loci MIRU-VNTRs. The various spoligotyping-based genotypic lineages in our sample were: Latin American & Mediterranean (LAM) n=75,...
Topics
- Adolescent
- Adult
- Aged
- Bacterial Typing Techniques
- Child
- Child, Preschool
- Cluster Analysis
- Colombia
- DNA, Bacterial
- Evolution, Molecular