Article
Characteristics of distribution of Mycobacterium tuberculosis lineages in China.
Science China. Life sciences - 1 Jun 2018
Chen Haixia, He Li, Cai Chao, Liu Jingyi, Jia Junnan, Ma Liang, Huang Hairong, Wang Lixia, Ni Xumin, Gao Jimin, Li Weimin
Abstract excerpt
The genotyping methods of Mycobacterium tuberculosis would dramatically improve our understanding of the molecular epidemiology of tuberculosis. 3,929 isolates, from a National Survey of Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis in 2007 in China, were successfully genotyped by large sequence polymorphisms and 15 loci variable number tandem repeats. We found that 2,905 (2,905/3,929, 73.9%) cases belonged to Lineage 2, dominated...
Topics
- China
- Genotype
- Humans
- Minisatellite Repeats
- Molecular Epidemiology
- Mycobacterium tuberculosis
- Phylogeny
- Polymorphism, Genetic
- Risk Factors
- Tuberculosis