Article
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 - 1 Jan 2015
Devi Kangjam Rekha, Bhutia Rinchenla, Bhowmick Shovonlal, Mukherjee Kaustab, Mahanta Jagadish, Narain Kanwar
Abstract excerpt
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 we...
Topics
- Bacterial Typing Techniques
- Beijing
- DNA, Bacterial
- Genetic Variation
- Genotype
- Humans
- India
- Interspersed Repetitive Sequences
- Minisatellite Repeats
- Mycobacterium tuberculosis
- Phylogeny
- Polymerase Chain Reaction
- Tuberculosis