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Mycobacterium tuberculosis spoligotypes and drug-resistant characterization from Beira compared to genotypes
Lívia Maria Pala Anselmo1, Emilyn Costa Conceição2, Evangelina Namburete1,3
1Universidade de São Paulo, Faculdade de Medicina de Ribeirão Preto, Departamento de Medicina Interna, Ribeirão Preto, SP, Brasil.
Introduction:
Mozambique is one of three countries with high prevalence of tuberculosis (TB), TB/human immunodeficiency virus coinfection, and multidrug-resistant TB. We aimed to describe Mycobacterium tuberculosis spoligotypes circulating among drug resistant (DR) strains from Beira, Mozambique comparing them with genotypes in the country.
Methods:
We performed spoligotyping of 79 M. tuberculosis suspected of DR-TB compared all spoligotype patterns published on the international database and PubMed.
Results:
Both in Beira and Mozambique (n=578), the main clades were Latin-American-Mediterranean, East-African-Indian, Beijing and T, with no extensively DR TB cases.
Conclusions:
Beira and Mozambique share the same population genetic structure of M. tuberculosis.
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