ArticleJournal of clinical microbiology2009
First insight into genetic diversity of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex in Albania obtained by multilocus variable-number tandem-repeat analysis and spoligotyping reveals the presence of beijing multidrug-resistant isolates.
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- Map the gap: missing children with drug-resistant tuberculosis.Public health action · 2015Article
- Unusual mycobacterial interspersed repetitive-unit alleles in loci 580 and 4348 among Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates in Albania.Journal of clinical microbiology · 2014Article
- Molecular epidemiology of tuberculosis in Sicily, Italy: what has changed after a decade?BMC infectious diseases · 2014Article
- Beijing lineage of MDR Mycobacterium tuberculosis in Bulgaria, 2007-2011.Emerging infectious diseases · 2014Article
- "Spoligoriftyping," a dual-priming-oligonucleotide-based direct-hybridization assay for tuberculosis control with a multianalyte microbead-based hybridization system.Journal of clinical microbiology · 2012Article
- A model-based Bayesian estimation of the rate of evolution of VNTR loci in Mycobacterium tuberculosis.PLoS computational biology · 2012Article
- A molecular epidemiological and genetic diversity study of tuberculosis in Ibadan, Nnewi and Abuja, Nigeria.PloS one · 2012Article
- Using affinity propagation for identifying subspecies among clonal organisms: lessons from M. tuberculosis.BMC bioinformatics · 2011Article
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Abstract
We characterized a set of 100 Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex clinical isolates from tuberculosis (TB) patients in Albania, typing them with a 24-locus variable-number tandem-repeat-spoligotyping scheme. Depending on the cluster definition, 43 to 49 patients were distributed into 15 to 16 clusters which were likely to be epidemiologically linked, indicative of a recent transmission rate of 28 to 34%. This result suggests that TB is under control in Albania. However, two multidrug-resistant (MDR) Beijing genotypes harboring the same S531A mutation on the rpoB gene were also found, suggesting a potential recent transmission of MDR TB. Three brand new genotypes, Albania-1 to Albania-3, are also described.
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