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ArticlePloS one2012

Dominant incidence of multidrug and extensively drug-resistant specific Mycobacterium tuberculosis clones in Osaka Prefecture, Japan.

Aki Tamaru, Chie Nakajima, Takayuki Wada, Yajun Wang, Manabu Inoue, Ryuji Kawahara, Ryoji Maekura, Yuriko Ozeki, Hisashi Ogura, Kazuo Kobayashi and 2 more

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12 authors.

Aki TamaruDepartment of Infectious Diseases, Osaka Prefectural Institute of Public Health, Osaka, Osaka, Japan. tamaru@iph.pref.osaka.jp
Chie Nakajima
Takayuki Wada
Yajun Wang
Manabu Inoue
Ryuji Kawahara
Ryoji Maekura
Yuriko Ozeki
Hisashi Ogura
Kazuo Kobayashi
Yasuhiko Suzuki
Sohkichi Matsumoto

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Infection and transmission of multidrug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MDR-Mtb) and extensively drug-resistant M. tuberculosis (XDR-Mtb) is a serious health problem. We analyzed a total of 1,110 Mtb isolates in Osaka Prefecture and neighboring areas from April 2000 to March 2009. A total of 89 MDR-Mtb were identified, 36 (48.5%) of which were determined to be XDR-Mtb. Among the 89 MDR-Mtb isolates, 24 (27.0%) phylogenetically distributed into six clusters based on mycobacterial interspersed repetitive units-various number of tandem repeats (MIRU-VNTR) typing. Among these six clusters, the MIRU-VNTR patterns of four (OM-V02, OM-V03, OM-V04, and OM-V06) were only found for MDR-Mtb. Further analysis revealed that all isolates belonging to OM-V02 and OM-V03, and two isolates from OM-V04 were clonal. Importantly such genotypes were not observed for drug-sensitive isolates. These suggest that few but transmissible clones can transmit after acquiring multidrug resistance and colonize even in a country with a developed, well-organized healthcare system.

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Cluster AnalysisExtensively Drug-Resistant TuberculosisGenetic VariationGenotypeHumansIncidenceJapanMicrobial Sensitivity TestsModels, GeneticMutationMycobacterium tuberculosisPhylogenyPublic HealthRepetitive Sequences, Nucleic AcidSequence Analysis, DNATuberculosis, Multidrug-Resistant

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PMID22952596
PMCPMC3432034

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